From: William Grosso <wgrosso@...>
Date: 2006-09-11T13:03:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Research Methodology (RE: Real World Scalability and Ruby - Top 2	0


Quite a few of the guesses can be refined using LinkedIn (search for
engineers working at the company; see what skills they list; make
obvious deductions).


Bill


Peter Booth wrote:
>  Actually Joseph used one of the soundest research methods I know of. He
> published an obviously flawed "Strawman", didn't pretend it was anything it
> wasn't, and the wisdom of the group began fixing errors and filling in
> blanks. So, just like "Nail Soup", a basic seed is evolving into a matrix
> that has more information than any single one of us could contribute.
> 
> Thanks for taking the initiative,
> 
> Peter.
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph [mailto:jlhurtado@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 2:55 PM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: Real World Scalability and Ruby - Top 20
> 
> Friends,
> 
> As Tim Bray suggested I've made my best to drop the guesses on the list, and
> show only information I know is either true or reported by some credible
> source.  When no information is there, I just left a question mark.
> 
> I have also updated the list with the information Chad Perrin, Charles
> Nutter and Tim Bray added to it.  This is the list so far, again open for
> improvement:
> 
> 1 Yahoo FreeBSD
>    PERL, PHP, Proprietary
> "Also Python and Common Lisp" Chad Perrin
> 
> 
> 2 MSN   Windows Server 2000/2003, Some FreeBSD
>    ASP, ASP.NET
> "I believe they're still using some FreeBSD systems at Hotmail, and all of
> Windows is behind free unix firewalls through a proxy service." Chad Perrin
> 
> 3 Google.  Linux based or unknown servers
>    Python, C, Proprietary, Java
> 
> 4 Baidu.com  Linux based unknown.
>   ?
> 
> 5. Qq.com  Linux based unknown and Windows 2003.
>    ?
> 
> 6. MySpace  Windows 2003 / 2000 some Linux unknowns too.
>    Coldfusion
> "Migrating to BlueDragon.NET, which uses .NET as the back end for
> ColdFusion... currently... on a ColdFusion 5 back-end" Chad Perrin
> 
> 7. sina.com.cn  FreeBSD, Solaris 8, Linux based unknowns,
>     ?
> 
> 8. Yahoo Japan Like Yahoo at 1.
> 
> 9. 163.com China  FreeBSD and some Linux based unknowns,
>     ?
> 
> 10 Live.com     Windows 2003, Linux unknown servers
>    ASP.NET
> 
> 11 eBay.com Windows 2000/2003
> PERL, Proprietary, Java J2EEE
> 
> "eBay is running a crapload of Java... they used to be a solid ASP site
> (pre-.NET) but switched to Java because the ASP stuff scaled horribly...the
> site has Sun/Java branding...it's probably safe to assume Java's involved. "
> Charles Nutter
> 
> 12. Sohu.com China      Linux unknown servers
>       ?
> 
> 13. YouTube.com Linux unknown servers
>       ?
> 
> 14.     Yahoo China     Like 1
> 
> 15. Microsoft   Windows 2003 / 2000, some FreeBSD at Hotmail, and UNIX
> based firewalls.
>       ASP.net, ASP
> 
> 16.   Wikipedia Apache, very little FreeBSD
>         Mostly PHP, some minor PERL, Python and some Java for the English
> search.
> 
> "a grand total of one FreeBSD server... The servers are primarily running on
> Fedora Core 3-5...The MediaWiki software is all PHP.  MySQL ...it's classic
> LAMP platform." Chad Perrin
> 
> "but Wikimedia do use Lucene  [Apache Java based text search engine]
> for at least the english search"   A. S. Bradbury
> 
> 17. Amazon.com  FreeBSD, Linux unknown servers, Solaris 8, Netware
>      PERL, Proprietary, more?
> 
> 18. Orkut.com   Linux unknown server
>     "ASP.NET"  Tim Bray
> 
> 
> 19. Blogger             FreeBSD, Linux unknown servers
>      ?
> 
> 20.     Google UK       Like Google
> 
> 
> Bye again,
> 
> Jose Hurtado
> Web Developer
> Toronto, Canada
> 
> 
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