19,000,000,000 reasons to choose BSD

[Jason Hellenthal]

Matthew thank you for sharing this.

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 Jason Hellenthal
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> On Feb 19, 2014, at 23:27, Matthew Story <matthewstory at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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