Linux news

2007 07 12

Linux 'Caught' Having a Monopoly in Tomorrow's Web Generation

Web 2.0 is built on Open Source

Amazon uses Linux. eBay uses Windows. But what OSs and webservers run Web 2.0? We tested 17 of our favorites and found out. The script is included below to check for yourself. [...] Linux is pretty much it for Web 2.0 startups. Which Linux? Digg tell us they run Debian, it seems MobiTV run Red Hat, but we're not sure about the rest.

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Related: Top 500 Supers: Moore's Law Is Alive and Well

There are two Windows-based clusters, and 42 machines that run a mix of operating systems--and one of those operating systems in the mix is always a Linux and the other is a variant of Unix. If you want to be fair, Linux is represented on 86 percent of the machines...

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You change the World 2.0

They even tried to bend it to somehow impose their control over it and make it their own, like Microsoft is trying to these days, but they fail because of another novelty, a "License 2.0" if you will (even though the license's new version is actually the third one), the GNU GPL legal shield being revised today in a true 2.0 fashion, through an open and cooperative process.

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Winning OpenSource Frameworks in Web 2.0

When I started computing more than a decade ago I remember it took me weeks to learn a new program for self-expression, calculation or collaboration. Today it's fun, it takes me about five minutes total, it doesn't require any skills and within seconds I can take part in a worldwide distributed live-communication. [...] The open source community provides various tools that offer a useful environment for complex Web 2.0 applications and can help an organization to * take advantage of the new social and workplace trends * lower costs and improve functionality * embrace innovative new products, services and applications * increase knowledge and capability

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SOA + RIA + OSS = Web 2.0

Open source software is the underpinning of many SOA and RIA solutions. Open source software is the dominant solution for Ajax RIA interfaces... Web 2.0 is also about collaboration and using the Internet as a social network. It is hard to find a better example of this spirit than within the open source communities. Open source software is built socially. Communication and transparency are core values of an open source project.

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'MySQL, Linux powers Web 2.0' - O'Reilly

Without Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP many Web 2.0 companies would not exist today. This is according to Tim O'Reilly, CEO of O'Reilly Media and the person most often credited for coining the term Web 2.0.

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Web 2.0 Companies choose MySQL
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