Picking a Web server used to be easy. If you ran a Windows shop, you used Internet Information Server (IIS); if you didn’t, you used Apache. No fuss. No muss. Now, though, you have more Web server choices, and far more decisions to make. One of the leading alternatives, the open-source NGINX, is now the [...]
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NGINX: The Faster Web Server Alternative
January 20th, 2012 · Comments Off
Tags: Business · Development · Infrastructure · Internet · LAMP · Network · Open Source · Web Services
Winners and Losers in Business Open-Source Software
January 10th, 2012 · Comments Off
We all know that Linux, Apache and Samba are vital for business data center servers, Web servers and file and print servers respectively in businesses both large and small. What you may not know though what’s trending below the top-tier of open-source software. That’s where OpenLogic, an enterprise open-source software provider and consultants comes in. [...]
Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · Development · Infrastructure · Internet · Intranet · LAMP · Network · Open Source · Server · Web Services
Red Hat’s biggest enemy? VMware
August 29th, 2011 · Comments Off
Let’s play a game. Who do you think Red Hat’s biggest enemy will be in a few years? Will it be Microsoft, Linux’s traditional enemy? Could SUSE, the number two business Linux distributor, make a try for the top? Might Ubuntu’s Canonical make its big break into corporate Linux? All good guesses, but Red Hat [...]
Tags: Business · Cloud Computing · Development · IBM · Infrastructure · Java · LAMP · Linux · Microsoft · Open Source · Operating System · Red Hat · Virtualization · VMware
Freedom Box: Freeing the Internet one Server at a time
February 16th, 2011 · Comments Off
Free software isn’t about free services or beer, it’s about intellectual freedom. As recent episodes such as censorship in China, the Egyptian government turning off the Internet, and Facebook’s constant spying, have shown, freedom and privacy on the Internet are under constant assault. Now Eben Moglen, law professor at Columbia University and renowned free software [...]
Tags: Development · Infrastructure · Internet · LAMP · Linux · Network · Network Services · Open Source · Operating System · Server · Web Services
It’s not just Twitter
February 18th, 2010 · Comments Off
A recent Washington Post story observed that Twitter loves open source. Twitter’s not the only ones. Most, if not all, social networks are built on top of Linux and open-source software. When the writer wrote that Twitter loves open source he wasn’t exaggerating. He was quoting from Twitter’s About Open-Source page. There, Twitter states that, [...]
Tags: Development · LAMP · Linux · Network · Open Source · Operating System · Social Networking · Web Services