From what I can tell from their open job's postings they are running entirely on the cloud using amazon's infrastructure and linux. Therefore they likely have very few windows servers and have their amazon infrastructure expand/contract as demand goes up and down automatically.
https://www.coursera.org/about/jobs
http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?k=Job&c=qui9VfwA&j=oIeNWfwp
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Lehti [mailto:elehti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 1:17 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: cloud services with new development on IBM i on Power
Durn it! I was all excited when Nathan Andelin told us about the exciting things he uses IBM i for in education at
http://www.relational-data.com/
But today's Wall Street Journal has a big article on Coursera, an online education provider, who will undoubtedly take over market share, crushing the feeble efforts of relational-data.com to remain relevant in education. Coursera probably has a bajillion Windows servers in their server farm, serving their 3.5 million registered users.
Read all about Coursera with a Google search on:
site:online.wsj.com coursera
Is there any possibility for Nathan and us to remain relevant when venture capitalists fund new startups like Coursera?
Sigh!
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