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Google at belfoss

Posted 2 weeks, 3 days ago on March 17, 2006 by yerma News

Zaheda Borat was the speaker from google and despite not being able to walk around the stage as she obviously wanted to, it was a very interesting discussion. The main basis of the discussion was about how a megacorporation such as google uses the power of FOSS software to provide the services it does. The google infrastructure is all built on FOSS - GNU/Linux, apache, tomcat etc, the main reasons she gave for using FOSS were:

Independence from software vendor
The posssibility of working on something out of the ordinary without giving your secrets back to the software vendor.

Useful site was Google Code.

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