Google: What does it use?

[Michael Hipp]

Joel Hammer wrote:
> Can someone tell me what Google uses for its server OS? I
> think they use linux. If so, the following should be
> of interest.
> 
> Note: This editorial says 100,000 servers. I wonder if
> they got the decimal place wrong.

100,000 commodity servers running Linux is consistent with everything 
I've read. They also have a support staff/server ratio that is a 
fraction of the typical number.

But they're fairly secretive about all this.

Michael