Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:43:47 -0800, John Locke wrote:
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>> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:49:50 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>Linux, open source software pay off for PayPal
>>>
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>>>| PayPal runs thousands of Linux-based, single-rack-unit servers,
>>>| which host the company's Web-presentation layer, middleware and
>>>| user interface. Thompson says he quickly saw the economic,
>>>| operational and development advantages of open source and
>>>| Linux technology. He now sees no other way to do it.
>>
>> .....because if they had to buy Windows licenses for all of those
>> servers, they'd be bankrupt.
>
> Oh nuts. Look, Paypal takes a percentage off the top, right? What is it,
> about 4%? Fine, they move to Windows, they up their take to 40%, they're
> fine. *Users* may scream, but someone has to pay the licensing costs of
> Windows. :)
And yet over 90% of the world uses Windows OSs with next to no problems.
Still, at least Linux us only human too
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=131
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