Sun announces open sourcing of its premier Web Server product line...

sun.com     Jul 24, 2008            

Am I not glad to share you the good news that Sun today announced its decision to open source the core kernel of Sun Java System Web Server under BSD license. If you wonder as to why are we doing this , here are the top reasons that come to my mind. Sun's new found open source love !!! The recently open sourced products from Sun like OpenJDK, OpenSolaris, Netbeans, GlassFish to name a few, have all been adopted very well within the open source community. I guess, Sun understands that there is still lot more innovation to happen within the 'Web Server' land and wants to be a part of this by sharing its innovation / IP within the rest of the open source community. This step should trigger cross pollination within other popular open source web servers like Apache HTTP server and LightHTTPd. Note that Sun wants to partner with... [read full story]                    


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