A short time ago, I and some coworkers were taking a MySQL class. (We are porting an MS Access app to SuSE Linux and MySQL.) During the class he stated that Microsoft uses Linux to run their web server. Is there anyone out there that can confirm or deny this claim? It doesn't really mater much...except for its humor value. Thanks. -- Bill Lugg Milstar Software Support Peterson AFB, CO
On Sunday June 19 2005 7:56 pm, William H Lugg wrote:
A short time ago, I and some coworkers were taking a MySQL class. (We are porting an MS Access app to SuSE Linux and MySQL.) During the class he stated that Microsoft uses Linux to run their web server. Is there anyone out there that can confirm or deny this claim?
It doesn't really mater much...except for its humor value.
Thanks. -- Bill Lugg Milstar Software Support Peterson AFB, CO
Back when that worm that attacked SCO, and was supposed to attack windowsupdate.com (I think it was Blaster but memory fails at present), MS put in linux servers for their web sites, or at least windowsupdate.microsoft.com. They were running an application by Akamai that was doing sort of a distributed load application in anticipation of being hit by massive worm hits to their site. Fortunately for them and the windows community the worm was mis-coded (or perhaps this was intentionally done as a warning) to hit www.windowsupdate.com, instead of the actual update URL. In any case I believe they have long since switched back to Windows servers, and most likely wrote their own load balancing stuff. If you're interested, Steve Gibson has a very small little app that will check what any web site is running on. It is ID Serve, at grc.com. It only runs in Windows, but is extremely small, and does not need to be installed, only run from its (any) location. I'm sure there are some xnix app out there but I'm not aware of any. -- Jim Flanagan linuxjim at jjfiii dot com
On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 22:45 -0500, Jim Flanagan wrote:
On Sunday June 19 2005 7:56 pm, William H Lugg wrote:
A short time ago, I and some coworkers were taking a MySQL class. (We are porting an MS Access app to SuSE Linux and MySQL.) During the class he stated that Microsoft uses Linux to run their web server. . . . Microsoft Windows 2003 : see http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report? url=http://www.microsoft.com
Rudolf Schnetler
Jim Flanagan wrote:
I'm sure there are some xnix app out there but I'm not aware of any.
wget is what you want (look for the Server: line) : # wget -S --spider http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com --10:37:48-- http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ => `index.html' Resolving windowsupdate.microsoft.com... done. Connecting to windowsupdate.microsoft.com[207.46.18.94]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK 2 Content-Length: 3191 3 Content-Type: text/html 4 Content-Location: http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/Default.htm 5 Last-Modified: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 22:20:42 GMT 6 Accept-Ranges: bytes 7 ETag: "0d964617da5c31:422" 8 Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 9 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET 10 Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:37:56 GMT 11 Connection: keep-alive /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/freetrial - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution. Sign up for your free 30-day trial now!
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