Posted on 04/22/2016 8:02:49 AM PDT by Utilizer
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Telstra has invested $10.3 million in San Francisco-based open source web developer Nginx, the telco revealed today.
Telstra Ventures chief Mark Sherman said the decision to invest was driven by Nginx's increasing global popularity, and technology leadership in the web application delivery and deployment market.
Telstra's websites run on Nginx currently.
Nginx was developed by Kazakhstan-born, Russian developer Igor Sysoev, and can be used to serve web pages, and act as a reverse proxy and load balancer for sites. The server runs on the Unix, Linux, BSD, Apple OS X, Oracle Solaris, IBM AIX and Microsoft WIndows operating systems.
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Open source, so 90’s.
Open Source... -and it runs some very good websites!
Thanks for the ping, ShadowAce! *grin*
Hmm, do I really want the antilock brakes on my car to be open source?
Free Republic for instance.
Exactly, and one of the reasons I found the article so interesting.
JohnRob might as well, if he can find enough time from fussing over the servers to make certain FR does not drop offline again. Thanks, John! :)
Will they close the office in Moscow?
When was FR off line last? I got some redirects to my ISP a couple of weeks ago…
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