As you probably know, on
Wednesday Sun introduced the Wayback
Machine. The Wayback Machine has been collecting ‘snapshots’ of the web since
1996 and now you can access the collection of web pages, including other
content like movies, music and books.
On Monday,our
CEO Jonathan Schwartz highlighted the
importance of open source in an article for Ostatic.
Keeping up with these
current themes, I wanted to point out that Sun’s commitment to open source goes back….
way back. For folks who don’t know – the initial code drop for the Tomcat app
server came from Sun. It was launched by Apache in 1999 by a group that
included Sun and JServ developers and the first release included donated Sun
Java Web Server code. Tomcat was available under an open source license, and
contributed to the popularity of open source software within large enterprises
thereby playing a decisive role in the early adoption of server-side Java.
That allegiance to open source
continues today with OpenSolaris, GlassFish, NetBeans among others.
The Wayback Machine was in fact, made possible because of innovations from Modular Datacenter and ….OpenStorage!
