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The New Face of Open Source: Facebook

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Computerworld UK; By Glyn Moody 		Mail this story
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Facebook's release of HipHop as open source underlines the fact that along with Google, Facebook has become one of the most powerful demonstrations that free software now scales way beyond proprietary offerings. In fact, HipHop handles over 10 billion PHP-based pages views every day, on average - a number that is likely to grow significantly.

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