How many successful reasonably known startups run on windows?

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Post by artilheiro » Tue, Dec 29, 2009, 6:53 PM UTC

I am just curious, Google, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo all run linux. How many do you know use Windows?

Re: How many successful reasonably known startups run on windows?

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Post by a2tech » Tue, Dec 29, 2009, 7:03 PM UTC

Well-Stack Overflow, Serverfault and all the other things Jeff Atwood is involved with runs Windows.

Re: How many successful reasonably known startups run on windows?

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Post by aditya » Tue, Dec 29, 2009, 7:35 PM UTC

Myspace does too: http://highscalability.com/myspace-architecture

Re: How many successful reasonably known startups run on windows?

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Post by hga » Tue, Dec 29, 2009, 8:26 PM UTC

I've read that eBay's Java front end runs on Windows (and still runs on it due to general cluelessness; their capacity management problems have to do with the latter).

Re: How many successful reasonably known startups run on windows?

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Post by katovatzschyn » Tue, Dec 29, 2009, 8:50 PM UTC

Does Microsoft count?

Re: How many successful reasonably known startups run on windows?

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Post by gus_massa » Wed, Dec 30, 2009, 2:06 AM UTC

Writely used Windows and C#. (Google bought it in 2006, now it is Google Docs.)