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Story: Microsoft hides behind Linux for protection
Posted by: Magnesium|CW| (Friday 29 August 2003, 2:55 PM)
Microsoft is not afraid to use other operating systems to do their biddings. In the past, hotmail was run from FreeBSD boxes.
Also, Microsoft did not employ Linux boxes to protect itself, rather it used Akamai's network (and consequently their cache servers - which just happen to run linux) to protect it's own network. It may seem like semantics but consider this; Akamai's 15,000 cache servers spread around the globe make it fundamentally a better way to deflect a DDoS attack.
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Story: Microsoft hides behind Linux for protection
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I have been waiting for 13 years for microsoft to... Anonymous -
Enough said!! Anonymous
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Well it is about time. MS started to give in for t... Abe
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It defies logic. Not the worm but Microsoft's Choi... Dariusz Zelichowski
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HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!! Anonymous
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hahaha. that must be a blow to microsoft executive... Folle Rec
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M$ must be eating tons of crow: What a tacet admis... swbobcat
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I think the headline speaks volumes. enough said. Oscar Goldman
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Well now it would seem to me that ol M$ themselfs... Peter Nikolic
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Sensationalism.
Iam a one-eyed GNU/Linux lover and... Anonymous guy
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Don't get me wrong, I'm a linux enthusiast. I've g... Simon
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Just because microsoft is using a Linux system to... David Guenther
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I think that it's great that people from Microsoft... Milan Uremovic
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Microsoft is not afraid to use other operating sys... Magnesium|CW| -
IT's so funny to see Microsoft's behaviour! The ma... Anonymous
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It seems that Microsoft is running from their own... Tosin A. Atolagbe
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It's a great move from the MS perspective. Now tho... Kunal Jain
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Talk about spin! MIcrosoft choose Akamai becaus... Darren DeNunzio
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M$ stuff is just plain junk. 2000 was said to be s... Anonymous
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Well, Honeslty I don't know who this company that... Conrad
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Someone wrote this thingie ->>>
Talk about spin! M... Henrik Pihl
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This shows that Microsoft do not have much faith i... Anonymous
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Very funny!
I wonder why Big Bll decided not to u... "RedHat" rik ford
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