From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 23 15:34:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BCF16A50F for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:34:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (wcborstel.demon.nl [82.161.134.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B6D43D1F for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:34:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jorn@wcborstel.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 092C04216; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:36:43 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.wcborstel.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 65862-02; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:36:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68AC2418A; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:36:36 +0100 (CET) From: "Jorn Argelo" To: Freminlins , questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:36:36 +0100 Message-Id: <20050223152920.M33473@wcborstel.nl> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.50 20050106 X-OriginatingIP: 193.172.19.20 (jorn) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mail.wcborstel.nl Subject: Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:34:21 -0000 On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:00:31 +0000, Freminlins wrote > "But in December, Yahoo started to port its homegrown infrastructure > applications from its custom operating system to Red Hat Enterprise > Linux 4.0, which was in beta at the time and was released last week. > Plans call for a gradual migration of more applications to Linux, but > the timing and number will depend on how successfully the early work > goes, Ng said." > > http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801, > 99901,00.html I don't think that they would. That'll be a massive migration involving lots and lots of costs. They have to pay for RedHat Enterprise too. The only reason I can think off is that they want support.Perhaps I missed a part, but I don't see the word FreeBSD in that article. Besides, the point of the article is not regarding a migration of Yahoo, but Linux and IT in general. It has nothing to do with Yahoo or FreeBSD. I think that the author of the article is simply mistaking. Jorn.