Google primarily relies on its own internally developed software for data and network management and has a reputation for being skeptical of "not invented here" technologies, so relatively few vendors can claim it as a customer.
APPLICATION
PRODUCT
SUPPLIER
Distributed file system
Google File System
Google proprietary
Distributed scheduling
Global Work Queue
Google proprietary
Very large database management systems
BigTable,Berkeley DB
Google proprietary, Sleepycat
Software/Oracle
Server operating system
Red Hat Linux (with kernel-level modifications by Google)
Red Hat, Google
Web protocol accelerator
NetScaler Application Delivery
Citrix Systems
Web content translation
Rosette Language
Analyzers for Chinese, Japanese
and Korean (used
in combination with
Google proprietary
translation technology)
Basis Technology
File conversion and content extraction
Outside In
Stellent
Google's primary programming languages include C/C++, java and python. Guido Van Rossum, Python's creator, went to work for google at the end of 2005. The company also has created sawzall, a special-purpose distributed computing job preparation language.
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