What software does Hotmail run on?

[Mahaguru]

What software does Microsoft use to run Hotmail? I am not talking about the front end, but the back end. Do you think it is a customized version of Exchange?

 

[olds]

Why, you trying to hack it?

 

[nsafreak]

I highly doubt its exchange running hotmail. Come to think of it if I remember correctly the hotmail servers (last I checked) were on Sun Microsystems servers running Solaris. That may have changed but my guess would be that its something in the *nix enviroment that they wrote the code for.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

IIRC some *nix platform.

 

[Mark R]

Solaris, IIRC.

Always amused me that MS don't use their own OS for the backend on their busiest site.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Mark R
Solaris, IIRC.

Always amused me that MS don't use their own OS for the backend on their busiest site.

Ah, but you see, running a really crappy, shoddily-coded site on a system that won't crash allows them to create much more misery in the world than if they ran it on a system that would be down all the time anyway.

 

[TheToOTaLL]

http://www.securityoffice.net/mssecrets/hotmail.html ???

 

[Aluvus]

File extensions are SRF and ASPX, so probably files created in Visual Studio.NET served by IIS on Windows.

 

[bobsmith1492]

Not hamsters, llamas.

 

[SagaLore]

Its gmail, just re-branded.