Linkedin Corporation Not Just Your Ordinary Network
LinkedIn Corporation Not Just Your Ordinary Network Hardware In the business world, relationships matter, and no company understands this better • Xserve than LinkedIn. Cofounders Reid Hoffman and Jean-Luc Vaillant created the premier • Xsan professional social network to help people open doors to opportunities using the • Mac Pro business relationships they have already established. LinkedIn’s secret is the six- • MacBook degrees-of-separation philosophy, which helps people connect to a broader network, • MacBook Air find each other, and be found. The approach is clearly working. Today, LinkedIn is an • MacBook Pro online network of more than 40 million experienced professionals around the world, • Mac mini representing 150 industries. • iPhone • iPod 99 percent Java, 100 percent Mac • Apple Cinema Display A no-nonsense site with little visual fluff and few distractions, LinkedIn provides the perfect venue for busy professionals who have little time to spare. Behind the scenes, a team of talented engineers and software developers work to keep the site stream- Software lined, responsive, and as useful as possible. To equip technical staff with a powerful • Mac OS X Leopard development environment and the high-performance hardware necessary to write, • Mac OS X Leopard Server debug, and deploy code efficiently, LinkedIn has a standard policy: All development • Apple Remote Desktop is 99 percent Java and 100 percent Mac. • iChat • QuickTime Streaming Server Every new engineer who joins LinkedIn automatically receives a new Mac Pro with • QuickTime Broadcast Server dual quad-core “Nehalem” CPUs and 12GB of RAM, as well as a MacBook. The only • JAMF Casper Suite tough decision: engineers must choose between two 23-inch Apple Cinema Displays • Microsoft Office or one 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display.
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