19,000,000,000 reasons to choose BSD

[Matthew Story]

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.

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.

Links below:

http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/01/1-million-is-so-2011/
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/press/2013Jul-newsletter#whatsapp
http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/77211282835/four-numbers-that-explain-why-facebook-acquired

-- 
regards,
matt
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