Twitter Ties the Linux Foundation

It's been quite the actual all-star cast of companies becoming a member of the Linux Foundation in the last 12 months, and then 7 days might find adding another doozy.
twitter Following within the actions of Broadcom, Nvidia, as well as Samsung--all of which became a member of the actual nonprofit consortium recently--the one and only Twitter may announce upon Wednesday that it is becoming a member of the foundation as well.

“Linux and how it can be seriously modified is fundamental to our technologies national infrastructure,” stated Bob Aniszczyk, manager of open source for that social network giant. “By joining the actual Linux Foundation all of us can assistance an organization that is important to us and work with others with a community that's evolving Linux as quickly as we're enhancing Twitter.”

'The OSS Behind a Twitter'

Located in San Francisco, Twitter features 140 million active users as well as 400 million twitter posts daily. The actual microblogging service can be obtained around the world within 30 'languages'.

Making all that feasible are tens of thousands of Linux devices, according to the Linux Foundation.

Mysql database, Cassandra, Hadoop, Lucene, Pig, and Memcached will also be among the open source software deals utilized from Twitter, according to a recent set of OpenSource.org.

Twitter's Aniszczyk may provide a keynote entitled “The OSS At the rear of a Tweet” at the foundation's LinuxCon meeting in San Diego in a few days.

'Social networking Companies All Depend on Linux'

Additionally becoming a member of the Linux Foundation in a few days will be Inktank, the services as well as support company for the open source Ceph dispersed storage space system, and high-overall performance machine producer Servergy.

There is no doubt Linux use is increasing for Large Data. Inside a statement released earlier this year, actually, the building blocks found which almost 72 % of enterprise customers is going to be adding more Linux machines in the next 12 months to support Large Information, whereas just fifty percent that quantity likely to include Windows machines for the similar function.

“Since the importance of information, particularly actual-time data, takes priority both in the business as well as in the personal life, companies tend to be counting on Linux to aid more information, more of the period, and in different options than ever before,” the building blocks came to the conclusion. “Especially, social media companies all rely on Linux to build out greatly scalable as well as efficient, low-price, low-power server farms to support substantial information and visitors.”