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PayPal Says Linux is Good; Know-it-all Web User Says Otherwise

7 December 2007 6 Comments

There is a great article and interview over at Information Week where the manager of PayPal’s payment system talks about how Linux is being used to power their entire electronic payment processing system.

This Linux system is currently processing $1,571 worth of transactions per second in 17 different currencies. In 2006, the online payments firm, which started out over a bakery in Palo Alto, processed a total of $37.6 billion in transactions. It’s headed toward $50 billion this year.

User comments to the article are interesting with a couple of users mentioning that their faith in PayPal has now decreased now that they know they are using Linux. Buy one witty user replies “I guess eBay, Google, and PayPal don’t know what they’re doing technology-wise. Perhaps both of you should fill out job applications with them and straighten them out. :-) “

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  • Simo’s Sagacity » Blog Archive » PayPal Says Linux Good; Know-it-all Web User Says Otherwise said:

    [...] in 17 different currencies. But know-it-all web user knows better, told to apply for job at PayPal.read more | digg [...]

    # 7 December 2007 at 10:37 pm
  • king spamalot said:

    This is a story about comments posted on another story? I just lost faith in the internet. Someone respond with a witty comment, I NEED to see a story based on the comments on a story based on comments on a story.

    # 8 December 2007 at 11:12 pm
  • Johan Kohler said:

    I don’t see any mention of Linux in the comments, they complain about them using 3000 servers instead of a couple of IBM mainframes.
    And those mainframes has the option of running AIX or Linux.

    Could be that the comment has been deleted.

    # 8 December 2007 at 11:21 pm
  • ar-lock said:

    Ha I guess that when i saved 200$ i also didn’t know what i was doing
    (thats what a windows license costs right?)

    # 8 December 2007 at 11:28 pm
  • mark said:

    roflmao, job apps? lol, that’s funny.

    # 9 December 2007 at 6:35 am
  • Nick said:

    I totally trust linux with my transactions. Other than running it myself, Linux happens to be on a very large number of web servers. I don’t see why everyone is complaining.

    Plus the fact that it’s FREE!!!

    # 19 December 2007 at 2:20 am

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