Great interview of the guy running Hotmail, he talks a lot about the scaling of megaservices and some of the concerns of managing tens of thousands of boxes. What would you give to hear a similar interview by his counterpart at Google or Yahoo? Fascinating read. ¶
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Matt Mullenweg is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, and Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web. 
Roy Schestowitz | January 13th, 2006 @ 5:13 am |
He says he started working on the project about 5.5 years ago. It was around then that Hotmail ceased to be FreeBSD-based. Could they ever live with the shame? *smile*
Oskar Syahbana | January 13th, 2006 @ 7:51 am |
I think there’s nothing wrong with using a Windowze box. Of course they are attacked by virus more often, but then again, that happens to all platform that isn’t well maintained.
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Elliott Hird | January 15th, 2006 @ 9:56 am |
^ $#!&^”