[zhubert]

Well this was an interesting thread to see pop up.

Hi, I'm Zack, I was a Sr. Unix Administrator at AMZN in 1999 and worked alongside very talented folks like snovotny, lamont, yvette, grabatin, gborle, jamison, craig, and so many others. The responses from Benjamin Black and Peter Voshall are correct.

We definitely were on DEC Tru64 at this time. Sun was running the big databases like ACB. I recall worries that obidos might not be able to build in a few months time so the engineer with the little corgi (Erik?) spiked out a linux build and then it was linux pizza boxes as quickly as we could build them.

We built CMF and other things to handle mass provisioning but it was chaotic for quite a while. I don't recall anyone talking about what would later become AWS in those days.

[alexhutcheson]

> I recall worries that obidos might not be able to build in a few months time

What was going to cause this?