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Google relies on internally developed software.

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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