Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 1st Feb 2008 13:00 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
Microsoft has offered to buy the search engine company Yahoo for USD 44.6bn in cash and shares. The offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo's board, is 62% above Yahoo's closing share price on Thursday. Yahoo cut its revenue forecasts earlier this week and said it would have to spend an additional USD 300m this year trying to revive the company. It has been struggling in recent years to compete with Google, which has also been a competitor to Microsoft. Update: More here.
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RE[5]: bad for FreeBSD
by JonathanBThompson on Fri 1st Feb 2008 16:50
in reply to "RE[4]: bad for FreeBSD"
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Everest is their search engine click-through data processing database platform, that runs on huge multiple node multiple cluster systems (meant to process multi-petabyte databases), and is in active use *RIGHT NOW* (not beta, not alpha, but released) and something customers (those that buy ads) get to see. Just because the average user may see one type of server OS exposed in one place they look, doesn't mean squat as to what's doing the heavy lifting for other things.
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Check netcraft for .yahoo.com.
I'm sure yahoo has Linux projects in the works, but much of their externally facing infrastructure is (and will be) FreeBSD.