Linux Success Story: Paypal Powered by 4000 Linux Server Grid

December 7, 2007in Business, Linux, Linux desktop, Linux distribution, Make money with Linux last updated December 7, 2007

This is yet another Linux success story. PayPal says Linux grid can replace IBM mainframes:

PayPal is currently processing $1,571 worth of transactions per second in 17 different currencies on about 4,000 servers running Red Hat Linux. Thompson supervises a payment system that operates on about 4,000 servers running Red Hat Linux in the same manner that eBay and Google conduct their business on top of a grid of Linux servers. “I have been pleasantly surprised at how much we’ve been able to do with this approach. It operates like a mainframe,” he said.

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Ben says:
December 7, 2007 at 5:20 am
Wow that is some amazing amounts of money processed per second. that’s like $100 million a day
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