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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."
So we always talk about how companies should open source software that is no longer being maintained or sold... then when a company actually does it, we say "who cares".
"People that quote themselves in their signatures bother me" - athakur999
It can't hurt. As much of pain as it is to operate in mixed environments, we deploy a mix of lighttpd and apache web server for the very reason that even if a major bug or exploit is found in one, about half our front end systems would still be available while the others are being patched.
The more options the better in my book.
"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher.
Na, only a few people said who care. I say "Cool, another open source product."
I'll never use as a developer, but another free option is always good. Like someone else said, maybe there is some good code in there. Perhaps projects I do use will benefit from this.
Kudos to Sun.