RE: Microsoft HotMail

CobraBoy (tbyars@earthlink.net)
Mon, 11 May 1998 20:44:13 -0700


At 8:22 PM -0700 5/11/98, Josh Cohen cleverly crafted this:

> Hotmail was developed and built on Unix prior to Microsoft's
> purchase.
>
> I don't understand what is noteworthy?
>
> Is it surprising that we haven't dumped an existing working
> system for no reason other than to convert for the sake of it?
>
> While I dont have direct knowledge, I would suspect that if
> they considered moving it to NT and decided against it that
> it was because of the cost and inconvenience of the change and
> impact on the business (which runs fine at the moment).
>
> #include <big.disclaimer>
> Speaking as myself, not my employer..
>
> Josh

Well if that were true the Disney store and Dell's online store would still
be running OpenStep/Web Objects. In both cases existing working systems
were dumped for no other reason then to convert for the sake of it.

Tim
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