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farlander762
May 23rd, 2009, 03:50 AM
It seems to me that this should be blasphemy in the eyes of Steve Ballmer.

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=www.live.com

Is Macrosoft really running Linux? Could even they not get their crappy OS to play right??
jrusso2
May 23rd, 2009, 03:52 AM
IT's Akamai
pricetech
May 23rd, 2009, 03:59 AM
I'm not sure how true it is, I didn't follow up on the accuracy, but MS was aledged to have been running Linux a while back. I heard subsequent reports that after "they got caught" they moved everything over to winders servers.

I guess you could check snopes to see if they have an entry about it.
MikeTheC
May 23rd, 2009, 04:04 AM
I can see the headlines now...

MICROSOFT'S OWN IT DEPT: NO WINDOWS HERE
farlander762
June 4th, 2009, 12:17 PM
It gets better...

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.bing.com

What is Akamai??
Eisenwinter
June 4th, 2009, 12:18 PM
Is Macrosoft really running Linux? Could even they not get their crappy OS to play right??
I smell a Linux fanboy.
mofrikaantje
June 4th, 2009, 12:50 PM
lo-ol
ade234uk
June 4th, 2009, 12:51 PM
OK if there using Linux to run the server, what are they using to power their search, .php .pl .jsp this would be interesting to find out.
Tibuda
June 4th, 2009, 12:54 PM
OK if there using Linux to run the server, what are they using to power their search, .php .pl .jsp this would be interesting to find out.

ASP.NET under mono.
Barrucadu
June 4th, 2009, 12:58 PM
I seem to recall reading somewhere that their datacenter used Linux firewalls; hence the OS appears as Linux, but the servers are Windows.

Or something like that. I think.
benj1
June 4th, 2009, 01:00 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies

explains what they do, apparently content delivery, but they use their own servers rather than (in this case) microsoft. well at least it wont crash
directhex
June 4th, 2009, 01:57 PM
What Akami primarily do is load balancing - a whole bunch of caching and so on to allow really loaded sites to offload much of their bandwidth trouble.

Microsoft have been subcontracting Akami for years, as they're really very good at what they do - and whilst Akamai's service runs on Linux servers, the severs they're caching will be at Microsoft's HQ and running Microsoft's OS. You'll get the same result from a check of microsoft.com


jms@osc-bigmac:~$ ping www.microsoft.com
PING lb1.www.ms.akadns.net (65.55.12.249) 56(84) bytes of data.
sydbat
June 4th, 2009, 03:17 PM
My question is "who cares?"
burvowski
June 4th, 2009, 03:22 PM
My question is "who cares?"

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