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Opera 10.0 Released, With Integrated Web Server Functionality

Posted by timothy on from the two-way-street dept.

sherl0k writes "Opera 10.0, dubbed Opera Unite, has been released. Built into the Web browser is a full-fledged Web server, complete with nifty little gadgets such as a 'fridge' that people can post notes onto, a chat room, a widget to stream your music library anywhere, and a built-in file-sharing mechanism. It also scores 100/100 on the Acid3 test." Readers fudreporter and TLS point to The Register's report on the new release and a 5-minute video demo, respectively. Update: 06/16 15:18 GMT by T: Roar Lauritzsen of Opera Software writes to point out that "release" isn't quite the right word here; though you can download it, version 10.0 is still in beta, and the version with Unite is a labs (experimental) release.

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  1. opera - no longer an Enterprise option by ekimminau · · Score: 0, Troll

    As long as the market Opera was searching for is the Home user, I guess opening up another 10 attack vectors into a users desktop/laptop isn't necessarily a bad thing but this has all but eliminated Opera from ever being a viable enterprise browser candidate. I don't care what perceived benefit there might be for adding all this crap into a web browser, the impact of adding 1,000+ clients all firing up web servers, file sharing, a chat client and all that other stuff is going to kill the WAN for any significantly sized business. IMHO, this release is about as stupid as it gets. Someone with true brillance didn't think this through.

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  2. Re:WTF? by Critical+Facilities · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have to say I agree with you here. The other bad part is, for those 'idiots' who do manage to get this up and running, imagine how many more worthless web pages that we're now going to be inundated with as people who lacked the tech savvy to run a web server before now suddenly find themselves able to run one, and thus put up endless 'OMG Ponies' type websites.

    *shudder*

  3. More bloat by Snaller · · Score: 0, Troll

    Is there actually something useful?

    Like being able to make the fonts smaller or larger on pages? (They haven't had this, they "zoom" into the page, which is rubbish)

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  4. Re:OMG! Call the DOJ! Call the EU! by RightSaidFred99 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, IIS7 is sufficiently far ahead of Apache in almost every way that you're right - Microsoft doesn't have to compete with Apache.