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Sun Open Sources the Netscape Enterprise Server
An anonymous reader writes "Brian Aker has announced that Sun has open sourced the Netscape Enterprise Server under the BSD license. This is the evolution of the original server Netscape sold in the '90s during the rise of the first bubble. Almost twenty years later, Apache's original competitor is now made available for anyone to use under an open source license."
Nope, it's dead. And this time netcraft really does confirm it.
Developers: We can use your help.
I think about once a week I hit a page that has the Sun logo as its favicon, a telltale sign of NES.
Look for Jonathan Schwartz to write a four-paragraph blog on how this move "leverages the power of our dynamic open source global environmental network" and Sun's "innovation-intensive open ecosystem for defining new architectures and requirements for radical scale, economics and availability" and such.
Also look for Sun's stock price to continue sinking.
Advice: on VPS providers
Why, oh why, did you have to phrase it like that and trigger the memory?
NCSA Mosaic: Netscape Enterprise Server. Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time.
Luke Spyglass: I heard he died during the Browser Wars.
NCSA Mosaic: Oh, he's not dead. Not yet, anyway.
Luke Spyglass: So, you know him.
NCSA Mosaic: Of course I do. He's me!
From the Slashdot discussion "Browser Wars Declared Over?
April 18, 2007
From Browser Wars IV: A New Hope
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18, @01:34PM (#18784983)
Luke Spyglass: "You fought in the browser wars?"
NCSA Mosaic: "I was once a web browser the same as your father."
Luke Spyglass: "My father didn't browse the web. He was a finger server at the community college."
NCSA Mosaic: "That's what your Uncle told you. He didn't hold with your father's ideals. He thought he should stay home. Not gotten involved."
Luke Spyglass: "I wish I had known him."
NCSA Mosaic: "He was a cunning application, and the best downloaded in the galaxy. I understand you've become quite a good downloader yourself. And he was a good friend. For over a thousand days the W3C protected the web. Before the dark times. Before the Empire"
Luke Spyglass: "How did my father die?"
NCSA Mosaic: "A young web browser named Internet Explorer, who was a derivative of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Emporer hunt down and destroy the W3C standards. He betrayed and murdered your father. IE was seduced by the Dark Side of the internet."
Luke Spyglass: "The internet?"
NCSA Mosaic: "Yes, the internet is what gives a web browser his power. It's an energy field created by all connected computers. It surrounds us. Penetrates us. Binds the world together. Which reminds me. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your Uncle wouldn't allow. He thought you'd follow NCSA Mosaic on some idealistic crusade."
Luke Spyglass: "What is it?"
NCSA Mosaic: "It is open source browser source code. The weapon of a web browser. Not as random or clumsy as a closed source. An elegant idea for a more civilized age."
We have always been at war with Eurasia!