Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="Joseph, post: 4526641"] 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 [/QUOTE]

Verification