Microsoft gets a beating, along with Apache and Google in the web server department by no other than upstart Nginx. Thanks to the financial muscle of venture capitalists like Michael Dell backing it up, open source web server OS Nginx pushed out Microsoft’s Internet Information Server to become the second most popular Web server OS [...]
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What every User Should Know about Cloud Computing
What is Cloud Computing? Cloud computing is one of many terms for a software provision model where users log on to a server to access software. Other names for this model for computing are remote computing software service, software as a service, or application service provision. Regardless of the label, the structure of computing is [...]
Oracle vs. Google Legal Battle Raises Concerns on Open Source Software Control
In the field of computer technology, free open source software traces its roots to researchers and explorers of high technology. The main goal of these groups used to be sharing codes and ideas with each other. They used to be compared to socialists, as they believed in imparting and benefiting from each other’s discoveries. However, [...]
Former Yahoo Exec Now New OpenX Head
OpenX announced early this April their new CEO in Tim Cadogan. Cadogan was a former senior vice president for Yahoo! for its ad department. Cadogan brings in his five-year experience of managing ads for the search engine company to OpenX. The arrival of Cadogan is part of some changes that OpenX has for its company, [...]