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Yahoo Seeks Open Source Community Support

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the please-help-us dept.

itwbennett writes "Yahoo plans to release some technologies, including storage technologies, to the open source community, a senior executive of the company said. These are systems that Yahoo built to help it handle large numbers of users on its websites, but that don't necessarily give it a competitive advantage, said David Chaiken, chief architect at Yahoo."

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  1. Re:Messenger by MonsterTrimble · · Score: 4, Informative

    Jabber is missing a lot of stuff which Yahoo messenger does very well - like photo sharing and video chat. When I have to defile myself by using XP (about once a month for MS Publisher) Yahoo messenger is still by far the best chat client I have used - closed and open source.

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  2. Re:Open source the keep-alive & buffering prox by caternater · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have you looked at http://trafficserver.apache.org/, which is Yahoo's frontend proxies that they open sourced and donated to the ASF a few ears ago? Pretty sure it does keepalive proxying.