Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:41:44 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer2@gwdg.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yahoo! moving to Linux??? Message-ID: <4B2D2C78.9080602@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091219202034.A95397@gwdu60.gwdg.de> References: <20091219202034.A95397@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Konrad Heuer wrote: > > Sorry, maybe I missed something .. > > When entering http://www.yahoo.de I find my request redirected to > http://m.de.yahoo.com for some days now. > > Netcraft says: > > http://m.de.yahoo.com was running YTS on Linux when last queried at > 19-Dec-2009 19:12:25 GMT - refresh now Site Report > > Hard to stand, I'd expect FreeBSD get replaced by Windows because of > MS/Yahoo! agreement, but Linux?? > > Does anybody know about that? > Although Yahoo has been, and still is, a big FreeBSD user, their business has grown by absorbing many other web sites. Those are hosted on all sorts of different platforms. I don't think you can really state that "Yahoo is based on operating system foo" any more (for any foo) -- nor can you tell necessarily from the OS of the web front-end what the back-end application servers are running. Whether Yahoo wants to spend a great deal of time and money homogenizing the OSes their servers run on is an interesting question. I doubt it somehow: the benefits of simplified administration almost certainly don't outweigh the costs or justify the risks of service disruption. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkstLH4ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIwqRwCfSgmFCwogqDhSXLgk6P0BZUG3 bbQAnRJPUy6E8w1ooB/vpUXaE2XXbZOW =ak5b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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