Why Not Copy Facebook?

Designing an infrastructure to support a web platform shouldn't be as complicated as it is for smaller players, who handle a fraction of the traffic that Facebook receives. Now they can stop reinventing the wheel ( wasting time and money) - and leverage the experience of a technology leader.

Amplify’d from www.businessweek.com

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg plans to share the social-networking site’s data-center and server designs with other companies to help the technology industry become more efficient

The effort, called the Open Compute Project, will provide access to technology Facebook developed with Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc

“We’re not the only ones who need the kind of hardware that we’re building out,” Zuckerberg said today. “By sharing that, we think that there’s going to be more demand for the type of stuff that we needed.” Read more at www.businessweek.com

 

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