Google talks up smart software for reliability
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| However, Pike did say that nowadays Google's servers are custom-designed
| and run Red Hat Linux with a modified kernel.
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| Pike said he doesn't believe Google could have achieved this level of
| reliability with Windows.
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| "It was a good decision [to choose Linux] because it made it so flexible
| in the way you can do it," he said.
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| Pike then jokingly said if Microsoft's claims about the number of
| Windows administrators required per server were true compared to
| Linux, "Google would be a much bigger company".
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