Social networking for sports sits on an open platform
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| Parker, a software developer with a background in open source, brought to the
| company a conviction that avoiding proprietary software was the only way to
| launch a Web 2.0 enterprise. "In every aspect of what we do, we use open
| source," Parker says. "One of the major reasons we use it is the belief in
| its stability and availability -- and of course, zero cost to get started."
| Sportsvite.com is built on LAMP, a combination of the Linux operating system,
| Apache Web server, a MySQL database, and the PHP programming language, and
| Java.
|
| Parker says his friends, who became co-founders of Sportsvite.com with him,
| trusted his expertise. "They were cool with it. The conversation would come
| up from time to time earlier on, when they would be talking with someone else
| who would mention how .Net was pretty good. Then I would have to explain the
| pros and cons of why we were taking the approach we took, as opposed to
| using .Net, which straps you to Microsoft technology. They understood that
| and bought into the philosophy that there's a world of [open source]
| resources out there, and it's only going to grow and get bigger over time.
| We'll have more and more options available to us as we expand the site."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/130712
Even Microsoft uses Linux.
Related:
Top secret: Microsoft's $6 billion open source play
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| This month's announcement by Microsoft to acquire digital marketing
| services firm aQuantive has revealed little on how the companies
| will integrate their IT, but inside information indicates the deal
| may be Redmond's largest commitment to free software.
|
| [...]
|
| Whether the businesses are complementary or not, Microsoft's integration
| work will no doubt involve a lot of open source software used by aQuantive.
|
| Information available from Atlas' Web site indicates the Internet software
| company employs extensive use of open source software including Linux,
| Apache, MySQL, and Solaris.
|
| Software engineers at Atlas' Raleigh office do client/server development in
| C and C++, software maintenance and "scripting", and developing and
| maintaining custom reporting capabilities.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;1616039231;fp;2;fpid;1
It's unofficial: Microsoft bets business on Linux
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| What the press statement didn't mention is that Aruba mobility
| controllers run the Linux operating system which Microsoft has
| aggressively targeted as being inferior to Windows as part of
| its "Get the Facts" marketing campaign.
|
| [...]
|
| Pandey's appraisal of Aruba's technology is in stark contrast to
| Microsoft's "Get the Facts" rhetoric which places Windows as a more secure,
| and higher-performing choice over Linux.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id;754084996;fp;2;fpid;1
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