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"Megaservices like Yahoo!, Google, and Hotmail
have relatively low operations staff costs.
These megaservices have discovered ways to deliver content for less
that the milli-dollar that advertising will fund. For example, in 2002
Google had an operations staff of 25
who managed its two petabyte (2^15
bytes) database and 10,000 servers spread across several sites. Hotmail
and Yahoo! cite similar numbers - small staffs manage ~300 TB
of storage and more than ten thousand servers."
Up until 2000, I believe the operational staff at Yahoo was 8 and
included the co-founder Jerry Yang. |
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