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Re:No Exits. Liquidity Dries Up Even More For VC-Backed Star... by mpc on Friday October 03, 2008 @12:22AM (#322423)
A site like Facebook would be impossible with just 10-15 people. Designing, implementing, and managing something on that scale is an insane amount of work. It probably takes a dozen ops/monitoring people just to keep the thing running.
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Re:No Exits. Liquidity Dries Up Even More For VC-Backed Star... by alecco on Friday October 03, 2008 @03:27PM (#322972)
Only with standard corporate solutions.

a Website (httpd etc) + Web Application server (CMS/CMF) + Application Container (J2EE and all that) + RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL...)

And multiply that to development, QA, and production environments.

Yes, that way you need millions just in licenses and hosting to run even a lol-site and hundreds of employees to keep the beast working.

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