PayPal's Matthew Mengerink: Open Source Essential to Success | Linux Today

PayPal’s Matthew Mengerink: Open Source Essential to Success

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 22, 2007

“PayPal transacts more than US$1,500 every second of every day,
with millions of people around the world relying on the robustness
of its system.

“It comes as a surprise to many people that PayPal runs such a
large financial services company on an open source platform, but
that’s precisely how we’re able to deal with the two competing
demands our business model places on us: security and
innovation…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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