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Re: Linux don't blink

Author:Paul Haahr
Posted:7/7/1999; 8:14:35 AM
Topic:scriptingNews outline for 7/2/99
Msg #:8279 (In response to 8151)
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Dave wrote: I met with the technical team at XOOM.COM a couple of months ago. Over 7 million users, but only 80 people in the *whole company* (and a market cap in billions). Money for server OSes is not their concern, smoothe upgrading of their LAN is key. They opened my eyes to Linux's economies from top to bottom.

It isn't their concern now, but it probably was one of their concerns when they were first starting. If you're in startup mode, keeping your burn rate low, not sure when the money runs out, and planning to scale up to match user demand, low incremental costs for servers is definitely a killer attribute.

And, experience shows, once you've picked a server, you probably will stay with it until something breaks.

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