<div dir="ltr">Many of you have probably already seen this, but WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for $16,000,000,000 + $3,000,000,000 more in RSUs for current employees.<div><br></div><div>This past summer the WhatsApp CEO (former Yahoo!) gave a testimonial to the FreeBSD Foundation, with a link to a blog post boasting that with FreeBSD they are capable of handling 2 - 3 million concurrent requests on a single server.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Links below:<br><div><br></div><div><a href="http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/01/1-million-is-so-2011/" target="_blank">http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/01/1-million-is-so-2011/</a></div>
<div><a href="https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2013Jul-newsletter#whatsapp" target="_blank">https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2013Jul-newsletter#whatsapp</a></div><div><a href="http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/77211282835/four-numbers-that-explain-why-facebook-acquired" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/77211282835/four-numbers-that-explain-why-facebook-acquired</a><div class="" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br>regards,<br>matt
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