Microsoft’s offer for Yahoo! Oh deary me…
It seems like it is official according to Techcrunch. Microsoft made a bid to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. Quite a hefty amount of money if you ask me, but strangely I thought it should have been more. Strange.
Anyway, from a technical perspective, I wonder if all Yahoo!’s assets are going to have to “convert” to more Microsoft-centric technologies or if Microsoft is going to keep it as it is. In that case, I wonder how many of Yahoo!’s assets run on Linux. Even more so, I wonder if Microsoft is going to stop their “we’ll sue you for patent infringement” bullshit once and for all if that is the case. I reckon it would be quite interesting to know these things. Anyone got a bunch of links to some of the above mentioned information?
I’m almost dead sure Facebook does NOT run on IIS/Windows servers. I might be wrong, but I doubt it. If Facebook does in fact run on Linux, I have three words for Mark Zuckerberg: “Watch you back…”
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A Digging observation
This I find quite interesting. There is no doubt that the Digg effect is great for your traffic logs. Even if you hit the sub 100 diggs, your server is likely to take strain. What I find weird is that how little times people actually digg something!
If you look at this post of Lenovo running the Poll on which Linux to ship with, they have had far more votes on the poll that they have had diggs. In fact, the ratio is only 3.4%! Admittedly, we do not know how many traffic actually came from Digg and how many came from other sources. You would however think people who support such an initiative would vote on the poll and at the same time digg the article to get even more voters to support the cause.
I just find it amusing, thats all.
818 diggs
VS. 23720 Votes
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Tags: digg, linux, lenovo, ubuntu
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