I know Gossamer mail is a great product. But I want to know what other webmail system uses just out of a matter of interest. Would Hotmail be using a completely perl scripts just like Gossamer Mail or would it be a combination of perl and others.
Oct 12, 2001, 6:37 AM
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Oct 12, 2001, 6:37 AM
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Well obviosuly they will need mail servers and databases and things like that so yes they will use front-end and back-end scripts/software.
You are probably talking $000.000's if not $0,000,000's for a system like hotmail.
You are probably talking $000.000's if not $0,000,000's for a system like hotmail.
Oct 15, 2001, 3:20 AM
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Oct 15, 2001, 3:20 AM
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They would most likely be using Microsoft products. Although, I believe Microsoft brought Hotmail from another company a few years back, so Hotmail wasn't always ran on Microsoft based products and programming languages.
It was originaly run on a set of free-bsd boxes, before being moved to IIS (which took them a heck of a long time). As a side not, it's very interesting to search on Netcraft for Microsoft. From there you can see what their server set up is. You'll find a lot of development boxes running linux, even some running Mac OS!
As for the programming language Microsoft uses, I'm guessing it's a combination of ASP, connecting up to their SQL databases. They could actually be taking advantage of XML on their site. I think that they have recently moved a lot of their site to XML driven pages in an interesting move. Glad to see the big boys backing this great new technology.
- wil
It was originaly run on a set of free-bsd boxes, before being moved to IIS (which took them a heck of a long time). As a side not, it's very interesting to search on Netcraft for Microsoft. From there you can see what their server set up is. You'll find a lot of development boxes running linux, even some running Mac OS!
As for the programming language Microsoft uses, I'm guessing it's a combination of ASP, connecting up to their SQL databases. They could actually be taking advantage of XML on their site. I think that they have recently moved a lot of their site to XML driven pages in an interesting move. Glad to see the big boys backing this great new technology.
- wil