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Linkbait title. I went in expecting to hear something about nginx developing a business model, but it's just a generic article explaining what nginx does, and why it's good.
The first sentence: "Nginx yesterday unveiled corporate support offerings for the product, a traditional business model for open-source software".

Shortly followed by: "Subscribers to the Advanced and Premium options receive design, implementation and optimization assistance, as well as prioritized development. Premium subscribers will have access to an additional set of customization options...In addition, it's begun offering consulting services, too."

I just can't read. Oops.
"With Nginx, it is possible to handle hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users per hardware server."

I like Nginx, its a great web server, but really?

I pushed it to 10k without much effort on a relatively small box. This doesn't sound far fetched to me.

Edit: I actually pushed it to 10k/s rather than 10k simultaneous, which I suppose is a different matter.

Big difference between 10k and 100k, and note he speaks of "hundreds of thousands" so I'm taken that as >200k simultaneous connections on a single box.
It's not really all that impressive, most async servers boast similar stats. You can get tens of thousands on one multicore machine with twisted easily.
But what about hundreds of thousands with Nginx? Would love to see a benchmark or hear from someone who has achieved this on one machine (of any size).