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[russell]

They dont have their worth in the bank . Zuckie wont have 19 billion in the bank. From the IPO he will have a couple billion and the rest in shares and what the share price is decides his worth.

As for tulip PHP, you dont know what you are talking about. Facebook has some cutting edge technology which is why they are able to scale so well. When was the last time the website crashed ?

What memcached and mysql? If they had to build it from scratch I am sure they would have chosen a more scalable database like mongodb. I heard they are hamstrung with that setup. I often see posts go missing and other bugs, probably due to the backend being a mess. It is you who hasn't a clue what they are on about.

[AtW]

Zuckerberg just got married, just days after he became billionaire. Look out for a expensive divorce soon.

Prenups are legal in USA.

[Diver]

What memcached and mysql? If they had to build it from scratch I am sure they would have chosen a more scalable database like mongodb. I heard they are hamstrung with that setup. I often see posts go missing and other bugs, probably due to the backend being a mess. It is you who hasn't a clue what they are on about.

It's true.

But do you think he really cares?

Facebook is only for sad pathetic lonely people who have the mindless hope that letting the world know what they do and when they do it for hour after interminable hour will make them famous and interesting. That they are making a mark on this world (just before they drop into obscurity).

Sorry, have to go and update my facebook.......................................... ...........

[AtW]

As for tulip PHP, you dont know what you are talking about. Facebook has some cutting edge technology which is why they are able to scale so well. When was the last time the website crashed ?

What they had was a LOT of money - this allowed them to build their own data centers and even design their own boxes to serve their needs, hell they even use different racks it seems to gain more efficiency.

Not saying it was trivial but a billion cash in a bank helps solve a LOT of problems. This can only happen in USA - this country get Dragon Dens show.

[AtW]

Zuckerberg just got married, just days after he became billionaire. Look out for a expensive divorce soon.

Oh - he married a day AFTER IPO, which means his wealth can be determined based on that BEFORE marriage.

[TheFaQQer]

I wonder how much these billionaires actually have in their personal bank account? Most of it must be tied up in the company. Imagine the interest on 1 billion say? At a conservative 2% per annum you would get 20 million a year, say 12 after tax, million a month not bad for writing some tulip PHP.

The court paperwork when Oracle bought Peoplesoft showed that Larry Ellison had an overdraft running at about $900million or more (can't remember the exact figure but it was nearly $1billion).

Edit - this article says that in 2000 Larry had $1.2billion in debt

[AtW]

To be fair Larry build proper enterprise software company, this isn't some BS PHP frontend to store photoes and short text messages.

[SantaClaus]

bump

[BrilloPad]

Facebook somehow valuing your moron friends at over $100 each

[d000hg]

It's not going well. They're just fallen to $33.50 from $38 at opening today.

They fell to $35 and hovered before suddenly dropping to $34. Then the same at $34 before suddenly dropping $0.50. Is this due to automatic sell orders triggering?