Where I work, we have a few thousand servers and about 95% are linux.  I have 
converted almost all of my office guys to linux or Mac minis for desktops. 

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> On Jul 31, 2015, at 4:13 AM, Eric Oyen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> well,
> take a look at craigslist parent company: Ebay. Fully 35% of their operation 
> is Linux Centric. Mostly, its the 90,000 or so email and backend servers 
> running in virtual machines (like VMware). THey also run windows on some 
> desktops as well as an active directory infrastructure. However, one of their 
> biggest usage bases inside the company  are all of the Macbook pros they use. 
> THere is a tiny sliver of OpenBSD border routers and load balancers as well. 
> BTW, this information comes from a friend that works as a Sr. Systems Admin 
> in the Infrastructure development Dept.
> 
> -eric
> 
>> On Jul 30, 2015, at 10:59 PM, Amy Nielsen wrote:
>> 
>> Once again I like learning new things regarding open source, I had no idea 
>> Craigslist did any of this. I am realizing how big and widespread Linux and 
>> Open Source has become, it is exciting! 
>> 
>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I was perusing craigslist and noticed a link that said 'open source'. Being 
>> the ever-curious lad of 44 I clicked the link and wish to share what I found:
>> 
>> <quote>
>> 
>> craigslist is a big believer in open source software, and relies heavily on 
>> Linux, MySQL, Perl, Apache, Sphinx, Redis, Haraka, and many others.
>> 
>> craigslist (CL) has released the following open source projects:
>> 
>> CL blob service - a simple HTTP-based, multi-master storage service designed 
>> for scale-out and multi-datacenter deployments:
>> 
>>    • multi-master architecture with no single point of failure
>>    • scales well for both read and write intensive workloads  
>>    • tracks TTLs for automatic expiration and purging of blobs   
>>    • designed for both local and multiple data center replication
>>    • pluggable index and storage interface (uses SQLite for index and 
>> filesystem for storage by default)
>> CL image service - large scale image resizing and processing HTTP service:
>> 
>>    • flexible API to choose any quality, size, and center-cropping
>>    • automatically handles orientation operations from EXIF data  
>>    • stores resized images in the blob service (could use other stores)
>> memcache cluster proxy (MCP) - a high-performance modular clustering HTTP 
>> reverse proxy:
>> 
>>    • high-performance event-driven daemon
>>    • flexible configuration, easily extensible framework
>>    • uses standard memcached memory store for caching   
>>    • supports PCRE and rule-based traffic routing by URL, headers, and more
>>    • tracks health of origin servers, routes around failures
>>    • provides configurable URL redirects, rewrites, and real-time header 
>> transformations
>> In addition, craigslist contributes code to the following open source 
>> projects:
>> 
>> Haraka:
>> 
>>    • added the smtp_client code that helps support pooled connections for 
>> proxy queues
>>    • rewrote all of the smtp_proxy and smtp_forward code
>>    • major contributions to the test suite
>>    • plugin that does strict DNS checking, DNS access control lists
>>    • contributions to bannering support
>>    • logging infrastructure changes for more robust logging
>>    • plugins for aliases, access lists, etc.
>> Redis:
>> 
>>    • perl-AnyEvent-Redis-Federated: an event-based redis client that 
>> implements client-side sharding in Perl
>>    • redis_util: s collection of utilities for node-redis
>>    • provided support for included config files
>> Sphinx:
>> 
>>    • provided the original persistent connections implementation
>>    • craigslist sponsors useful sphinx feature developments, such as the 
>> TRUNCATE INDEX command for real-time sphinx
>> The craigslist Charitable Fund supports open source nonprofit organizations 
>> including:
>> 
>>    • Apache Software Foundation
>>    • Free Software Foundation
>>    • Gnome Foundation
>>    • Mozilla Foundation
>>    • Open Source Initiative
>>    • OpenStreetMap.us
>>    • Perl Foundation
>>    • PostgreSQL
>>    • Python Software Foundation
>>    • Software in the Public Interest
>> </quote>
>> 
>> Isn't that cool!
>> -- 
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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