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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."
Is this even relevant anymore? Does anyone even care?
That's what I was thinking too...
I actually used Netscape enterprise server way back when... it did LDAP, email imap/pop, and other stuff too... not just web. It competed, in my opinion more than just Apache.
Its surely seriously outdated code by now in terms of standards supported, etc so its probably not very useful... but who knows... maybe there is something worth looking at in the code. Its certainly not a bad thing that its been open sourced.
As good as Apache is, it could use some competition. Apache also creates a sort of monoculture that is probably not very healthy (especially in conjunction with PHP).
I personally have been moving away from Apache and using lighttpd (and FastCGI) whenever possible with my Python applications.
More choices are always better.
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
Too little? Sun in pretty much open sourcing everything it has ever produced, and that's a lot.
Too late? As far as I know, Sun is massive company that manages, among other things, one of the world's most used programming platforms/languages.
Has it's stocks gone down a lot? Sure. It's a shame. But every time I see "too little, too late" I must wonder... WTF