Microsoft Makes $20 billion dollar bid for Linux based Yahoo
Submitted by srlinuxx on Sun, 11/30/2008 - 14:24.
The UK Times is reporting that Microsoft and Yahoo! are in a $20 billion dollar deal (less than half their bid in February of $44.6 Billion) , the question not asked is what is Microsoft going to do with all those Linux servers?
Virtually the entire Yahoo infrastructure is based on Linux. The question at hand is even more important than the advertising dollars at hand… because the question actually affects their OS sales.
Yahoo uses freeBsd ? Free OS at that campus nearby ?
Windows NT/XP/Vista uses BSD netmanager concept. which needs modernizing from intranet to internet via PBX edgeQam transceivers.
Yahoo does use Linux - Report from Netscraft
Netcraft has verified that Yahoo News IS running Linux.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=news.yahoo.com