Losing your Religion?

from the maybe-they-should-all-uses-everyone-else's-stuff dept

Thu, Aug 24th 2000 11:11pm — Mike Masnick

da Mikey Chao writes "So Sun outsourced to a company that uses Windows to run their Java Developers' Discussion Forums. Big deal. Sun employees use Windows-based laptops and PowerPoint for presentations. And Microsoft (until recently) was running Hotmail on Unix servers. It's fundamental religion to run your business on your own technology, but sometimes, you have to make the trade-off between making a sound business decision or using your own technology."

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wonko, 26 Aug 2000 @ 9:37pm

Nitpicking...
Actually, Microsoft still runs Hotmail on UNIX servers, with the exception of just a few Windows 2000 boxen they added to the network recently. There hasn't yet been a full conversion to Win2K, as far as I know.
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Mike (profile), 27 Aug 2000 @ 1:43am

Re: Nitpicking...
Nah, apparently they really really (no, really!) are switching over. Besides, never doubt Mikey Chao. You never know what sort of inside info he might have...
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