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sellyme
on Dec 15, 2020
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Gmail having issues
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
on Dec 16, 2020
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I 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.
marcan_42
on Dec 16, 2020
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Now their corporate/finance stack on the other hand...
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enneff
on Dec 16, 2020
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Well, 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.
still_grokking
on Dec 16, 2020
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Didn't they use GNU/Linux form day one on?
jeffbee
on Dec 16, 2020
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Closed-source like Oracle I meant. They've been big boosters of all kinds of open-source stuff like linux, llvm, mysql, ...
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