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Out of all the companies Google might be relying on in their back-end, I think Oracle is probably pretty far down the list.
by sellyme 6y ago
Out of all the companies Google might be relying on in their back-end, I think Oracle is probably pretty far down the list.
- jeffbee 6y agoI can’t imagine what part of Google’s history would lead someone to believe there was any third party system in their production stack anywhere.
- still_grokking 6y agoDidn't they use GNU/Linux form day one on?
- jeffbee 6y agoClosed-source like Oracle I meant. They've been big boosters of all kinds of open-source stuff like linux, llvm, mysql, ...
- enneff 6y agoWell, google did use a bunch of off the shelf technologies in the early days, but now it is obvious that there is no vendor on earth that could supply the infrastructure to run Gmail.
- marcan_42 6y agoNow their corporate/finance stack on the other hand... shudder.