Google: What does it use?

[Tony Alfrey]

On Thursday 06 May 2004 07:11 pm, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 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.


I'll ask my tenant that lives above my garage; he works there ;-)


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