John Gruber takes a look at some of the technical issues that the possible Microsoft Yahoo! merger could present.
Engineering-wise, it’s interesting. Yahoo’s stuff is almost all written in PHP, and runs on FreeBSD and Red Hat Linux servers. I don’t think Microsoft has ever bought - and maintained - a significant software product that wasn’t [...]
Meanwhile at the backend of the Microsoft Yahoo! merger
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 4 February, 2008 to the technology subset
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Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 18 September, 2007 to the disassociated subset
I am now in the process of moving disassociated to a new server, so if you experience any difficulties accessing parts of the site, or images are missing, or things seem to be broken, that will be why.
Hang in there… hopefully the process won’t be too painful.
