Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

Ok, so this is a roundabout story about Microsft using Linux, but if its true its still totally valid. Microsoft it seems has previously hired a company to handle many services for MSN customers. Among those services are streaming audio and video. That company, Scale Eight, uses a "proprietary software" platform that runs on Intel hardware and the Linux OS!!!

HAHAHAHAHA

Microsoft may publicly claim that open source is not the way go, they may call it insecure and not stable enough for the enterprise, but AGAIN, it appears they employ it!!! Clowns, thats all there is to it.

Microsoft has used BSD and Linux in the past for services such as Hotmail (after trying and trying and trying for somewhere in the neighborhood of a YEAR they finally managed to get an NT setup that could purportedly handle hotmail, supposedly they have it running NT now) and even many other foreign Microsoft domains and web servers (According to Netcraft searches with "whats that server running." They have also employed pieces from the BSD IP stack and from the ISC BIND DNS server. These are the things that are KNOWN, surely there are many more instances. Now, in the midst of it, they hire a Linux based company to run the intensive services for MSN???

Hmmmm, is it just me or is this ridiculous.   Microsoft using Linux to stream audio and video to MSN customers: newsForge