Base Technologies: Internal Development
                      July 6, 2006
         
                       
         Google primarily relies on its own internally developed software for data and network management and has a reputation for being skeptical of "not invented here" technologies, so relatively few vendors can claim it as a customer.
  |    | APPLICATION | PRODUCT | SUPPLIER |   | Distributed file system | Google File System | Google proprietary |   | Distributed scheduling | Global Work Queue | Google proprietary |   | Very large database management systems | BigTable,Berkeley DB | Google proprietary, Sleepycat   Software/Oracle |   | Server operating system | Red Hat Linux (with kernel-level modifications by Google) | Red Hat, Google |   | Web protocol accelerator | NetScaler Application Delivery | Citrix Systems |   | Web content translation | Rosette Language    Analyzers for Chinese, Japanese  and Korean (used   in combination with  Google proprietary  translation technology) | Basis Technology |   | File conversion and content extraction | Outside In | Stellent |  | 
  Google's primary programming languages include C/C++, java and python. Guido Van Rossum, Python's creator, went to work for google at the end of 2005. The company also has created sawzall, a special-purpose distributed computing job preparation language
 
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