Konrad Heuer wrote:
Sorry, maybe I missed something ..When entering http://www.yahoo.de I find my request redirected to http://m.de.yahoo.com for some days now.Netcraft says:http://m.de.yahoo.com was running YTS on Linux when last queried at 19-Dec-2009 19:12:25 GMT - refresh now Site ReportHard to stand, I'd expect FreeBSD get replaced by Windows because of MS/Yahoo! agreement, but Linux??Does anybody know about that?
Although Yahoo has been, and still is, a big FreeBSD user, their business
has grown by absorbing many other web sites. Those are hosted on all sorts of
different platforms. I don't think you can really state that "Yahoo is based
on operating system foo" any more (for any foo) -- nor can you tell necessarily
from the OS of the web front-end what the back-end application servers are
running.
Whether Yahoo wants to spend a great deal of time and money homogenizing the
OSes
their servers run on is an interesting question. I doubt it somehow: the
benefits
of simplified administration almost certainly don't outweigh the costs or
justify
the risks of service disruption.
Cheers,
Matthew
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