Nicolai Rosen on Wed, 1 Mar 2000 02:29:21 -0500 (EST)


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Re: Amazon Boycott, continued (fwd)


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.
> 
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Nicolai Rosen
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