facebook for sale Options

[Seeker]

BusinessWeek reports that Facebook has turned down an offer for $750 million and is looking for 2 billion dollars. The article speculates that one possible suitor would be Viacom. From the article: 'A Facebook deal would help Viacom founder and Executive Chairman Sumner Redstone fend off a growing challenge from News Corp. The media conglomerate run by Rupert Murdoch has poured enormous resources into the Internet during the last year. It acquired social-networking pioneer MySpace.com last year for $580 million.

http://slashdot.org/articles/06/03/28/1453250.shtml
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/con...0327_215976.htm

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[Hartmann]

To say code is one thing, but to get into the infrastructure necessary to support such an insanely busy domain - that what would probably be rather expensive in itself.


I'm curious how much money the developers are making currently. I thought I heard that the site was created by a small group of people- but who knows how many make up the facebook team by now.

The team is still fairly small, you can read occasional postings about the happenings at Facebook at this guy's site: http://avalonstar.com

He is the visual guy and sometimes has post about different things at Facebook.

I believe I read an article that the infrastructure is similar to Google's philosophy, keep it cheap and continue to expand. Google's server room is a collection of old and new servers and when more power is needed, another server is plugged in. I doubt Facebook has more than 20-25 servers with a few database servers.