Open Source @ openBC: How, Why, and Where To?: Bill Liao

• open = open networking
• openBC was cah-flow positive after 90 days
• horizontal scaling model
• 1.5 M users today, 10 M planned for 2007
• 225 M pageviews / month, 86 pageviews / second
• 16 languages
• openBC has outsourced its development to Epublica
• usage of open source software:

• back and front end, support, development, testing
• LAMP, memcached, fastCGI, lighthttpd, clamAV
• debian linux, apache, mySQL, perl, java, FOP, cvs, nagios

• donations, paid for services
• developers are making OS contributions
• openBC is adopting Ruby on Rails and will release framework code

• essentially a security issue, they have invested a lot in user data security

Have a look at my contact page in OpenBC.

Cross-posted on the ecenter solutions blog.