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| ▲ | kqgnkqgn 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I'm not sure if it was entirely true, but there are stories that after Microsoft bought Hotmail in the mid-90's, they quickly attempted to move them from FreeBSD (?) to Windows NT. But it failed miserably, and they went back to the original stack for another ~decade. |
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| ▲ | enigmo 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | the FreeBSD migration didn’t take that long - iirc this was the frontend migration to an IIS ISAPI. the Solaris bits (storage and routing tables) took far longer - and again iirc the frontend had been rewritten in C# before all the Sun hardware had been decommissioned. | |
| ▲ | jeffrallen 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes. This happened. |
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| ▲ | pmontra 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Maybe this from 2012 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/aug/01/microsoft... |
