Interesting, but wrong.
Cisco systems has FreeBSD in the formerly IronPort products. Many of the Cisco BUs also have FreeBSD in various roles in the network.
Symmetricomm makes a number of systems for high precision time and frequency control, measurement and distribution that has FreeBSD...
Hotmail has converted over to MS servers. It only took 4x as many than the FreeBSD servers they replaced... But that was several years ago.
Well, not being able to install Linux wasn't the reason that FreeBSD was used at Yahoo! Yahoo! had some special needs that Linux just wasn't able to...
Yahoo still has a very large FreeBSD server farm. Thousands of machines in the US right now, according to sources. Yahoo doesn't publish its numbers, as it considers that information proprietary.
Rumor's of FreeBSD's demise at Yahoo! are greatly exaggerated. Yahoo still employs many FreeBSD...
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