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What does hotmail uses??
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.
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Re: [iwod] What does hotmail uses?? In reply to
Hotmail use custom code, not a third party script.

They employ some of the top programmers in the world.

As for the programming language or database used, I'm not sure.
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Re: [RedRum] What does hotmail uses?? In reply to
yes, i know they don't use third party scripts, but are they just a normal scripts or would they been like software install on the server??
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Re: [iwod] What does hotmail uses?? In reply to
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.

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RedRum: Oct 12, 2001, 6:38 AM
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Re: [iwod] What does hotmail uses?? In reply to
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