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Re: Largest Web Sites Opt for Linux

On 2006-01-08, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have just had a quick glimpse at Netcraft's "Most Visited Web Sites". Among
> the top 10, 8 run Linux or FreeBSD. The exceptions are microsoft.com and
> ebay.com.

And let's not forget that ebay's V3 architecture (their entire system) uses
J2EE on IBM Websphere and Sun Solaris servers.
http://www.sun.com/service/about/success/recent/Sun_eBay6-2_forWeb.pdf

Ebay is a very OSS site:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1830247,00.asp

Also, on a humorous note, MS Hotmail ran on FreeBSD servers as recently as
2000/2001.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/12/12/microsoft_hotmail_still_runs/

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