On Friday 25 January 2008 19:43, Kai Ponte wrote: > ... > > Oh, and FWIW, Amazon runs everything - Windows, Linux, UNIX, MacOS. > They have no "platform of choice" and run "whatever works" for the > API. I remember reading that one amazon.com webpage may be loaded > from 50 different servers running ten different OS's and variants.
It's true there's a mix, but the workhorses of their on-line presence are all Linux. Their data warehouse is based on Oracle, but I'm not sure which OS platform runs it. Many desktops within the organization are Windows, of course, but the software developers mostly use Linux. They do use virtualization, but it's Xen and both the host and guests are Linux. But the preponderance of their operational IT infrastructure is vastly dominated by Linux. And yes, I worked for them as a software engineer for a year and a half (in 2005 and 2006), so I have first-hand experience. > ... > > -- > k Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
