Informatika és tudomány

  • A1274815
    #138
    Kicsit részletesebben:

    "Microsoft "outsources" time.windows.com to Akamai's content
    distribution network. This makes sense, since they already outsource a
    lot of DNS and image content distribution to Akamai. Akamai uses Linux
    and other FOSS extensively. Even Microsoft has limited bandwidth
    resources.

    Incidentally, this relationship between Akamai and Microsoft is the
    reason for the oft-repeated "Microsoft uses Linux for its own web
    servers!" myth. There is, in actuality, nothing special about Linux
    that makes it suitable for Akamai's network, other than its low
    acquisition cost. All of the "secret sauce" Akamai uses to move bits
    about and direct users to content cache servers near them is, in fact,
    *very proprietary* Akamai code. They could have built that code to run
    on FreeBSD, AIX, OSX, or even Windows."