Microsoft using Linux to publish website
- From: "Iwan Romadhona" <Iwan.Romadhona@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:20:04 +0700
Is that true?..
regards
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Iwan Romadhona
Network Administrator - IT Department
PetroChina International Companies In Indonesia.
Mulia Tower 7th. Fl. Jl. Gatot Subroto Kav. 9 - 11Jakarta
Phone : (021) 250 0222 ext. 2553
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http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.microsoft.com
> Microsoft has made a big deal out of asserting that Linux is not fit
> for the enterprise. But Microsoft itself is using Linux to help
> protect its servers against denial-of-service attacks.
>
> According to a post on the Netcraft Web site, Microsoft changed its
> DNS settings on Friday so that requests for www.microsoft.com no
> longer resolve to machines on Microsoft's own network, but instead
> are handled by the Akamai caching system, which runs Linux.
>
> Akamai runs a service to help boost Web site performance by caching
> copies of Web sites on many servers in many locations. Akamai can
> help defend against denial-of-service attacks by spreading the
> attack among many servers. Just as a distributed denial-of-service
> attack enlists large numbers of systems to attack a single server,
> Akamai presents a distributed defense against denial-of-service
> attacks.
>
> As of this writing, Netcraft reports that www.microsoft.com is still
> running on Linux, although microsoft.com is reported as running on
> Windows Server 2003.
>
> A Microsoft spokeswoman said she'd look into the report and get back
> with a response. An Akamai spokeswoman declined to comment, except
> to confirm that Microsoft is a customer.
>
> Microsoft using a Linux service is ironic, given that Microsoft has
> identified Linux as its biggest competitor. In a conference call
> with analysts last month, company CFO John Connors ranked Linux as
> the #2 risk faced by the company. The #1 risk was the general
> economic environment, Connors said. Nearly one in five small and mid-
> sized businesses are using Linux on the desktop.
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