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TonyGM
04-13-2001, 08:00 AM
Bill Gates is trying to go into the hosting world, and create a monoply on that trade too! ;)

Supposably, he is gonna create like a backbone 10x faster, and more powerful then any known in the US.

Anyone got any thoughts about this matter??? Wonder if he'll offer colocation ;)

TheComputerGuy
04-13-2001, 08:13 AM
Colocation? LoL, if he offers reselling I will defintly join it also, because just to say, can you find anything out at the microsoft.com site?

Tim Greer
04-13-2001, 08:16 AM
Originally posted by TonyGM
Bill Gates is trying to go into the hosting world, and create a monoply on that trade too! ;)

Supposably, he is gonna create like a backbone 10x faster, and more powerful then any known in the US.

Anyone got any thoughts about this matter??? Wonder if he'll offer colocation ;)

My thoughts are; Bill Gates can likely do about anything he wants... it's not like he's going to lose money, and if he does, no big loss for him. I doubt if he did any hosting, his company would offer hosting to anyone, other than fortune 100/500 companies. The technology to have faster transfer is there, he has the money to implement it, you never know.

ckizer
04-13-2001, 08:51 AM
Lol you know that all the colocated servers are going to have to have a microsoft sticker on them don't you? Hmm any unix machines in that room will 'magically' have a poor uptime compared to the windows boxes. No thanks, Bill go back to rolling in your piles of money.

JTY
04-13-2001, 08:21 PM
Well he better invest in firewalling equipment, or start patching bugs in win2k.

jw
04-14-2001, 05:29 AM
hehe, i would use if it he used unix servers...remember when microsoft.com was down for like 3 days due to a DoS attack to their dns servers? they were so redundant that all of their backup name servers were in the same noc...now they outsource to akamai.

TonyGM
04-14-2001, 09:52 AM
hahahahahaha nice one about the unix boxes.. HAHAHA :stickout