Nicolai Rosen on Wed, 1 Mar 2000 02:29:21 -0500 (EST) |
microsoft.com isn't exactly the hardest site to serve. A lot of it is split off onto other sites & most of the content is relatively static. On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Adam Turoff wrote: > > >Actually, I'm rather suprised that barnsandnoble runs off of IIS/NT. I > > >could see it working for the smaller sites, but for an operation that big > > >I wouldn't think it would even be possible. That's why borders & amazon > > >use Unix. > > Let's not forget that microsoft.com is running IIS/NT. It's one of the > largest sites on the web, in terms of content, authors, hit counts, > and probably any other metric short of ferrets-per-packet. > > Walt's story about QVC doesn't appear to be an aberrant case. > > Of course, that does not address the frustration level that goes > hand-in-hand with IIS, managing NT or running the only server on the > planet that returns '503: Server Too Busy' errors. > > Urb wrote: > > How about this. Dell, who claims to be booking between $20 to $40 > > million a day, is using ASP for the order system. > > > > http://wwwapp.us.dell.com/us/en/ordstat/index.asp > > At one point, Dell's site had the worlds largest sales from a website > (2-3 million/day at the time I think), and the site was running > Next's WebObjects (Hi, Kurt!). At that point in time, Gateway's site was > already all ASP-based. > > Legend has it that Microsoft was furious that a PC vendor wasn't using > a Microsoft product for ecommerce (before the big ecommerce push). They > offered to rewrite Dell's store in ASP *at their own expense* to get > Dell to convert. The first few attempts failed, though they appear to > have succeeded some time in 1998 or so. > > Z. > > **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX <URL:http://www.panix.com>** > **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe phl" to majordomo@lists.pm.org** > Nicolai Rosen nick@netaxs.com Earthstation/Netaxs **Majordomo list services provided by PANIX <URL:http://www.panix.com>** **To Unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe phl" to majordomo@lists.pm.org**
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