PayPal says "Open Source Essential to Success"
PayPal transacts more than US$1,500 every second of every day, with millions of people around the world relying on the robustness of its system. It comes as a surprise to many people that PayPal runs such a large financial services company on an open source platform, but that's precisely how we're able to deal with the two competing demands our business model places on us: security and innovation. The economic, operational, development and security advantages of open source and Linux put us in the perfect position to both grow and innovate in a safe and secure manner. Here are four reasons why we love our open source system -- and four tips for you if you're thinking of making the switch Economics That Can't Be Beat Our system environment, built entirely in-house by PayPal developers, consists of thousands of Linux-based, single-rack Unity servers, which host our Web-presentation layer, middleware and user interface. If we were dealing with hefty mainframe operati...