19,000,000,000 reasons to choose BSD

[Siraaj Khandkar]

One more: https://vimeo.com/44312354


On 2/19/14, 11:27 PM, Matthew Story 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
>