He also oversaw the development of NCSA Mosaic--the Web browser that led to Netscape Navigator--as well as the popular open-source server software known as Apache.
Mr Behlendorf was a pioneer in the development of the well-known Apache open-source web server, so his views come as little surprise.
Ubuntu is a free, open-source platform for client, server and cloud computing.
Netflix said that as part of the project it is sharing its hardware design and the open source software components of the server used in the project.
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The software leviathan stunned a rookery of Linux users yesterday at a conference and expo in Boston with the revelation that it will now provide technical support for the open-source software running on Virtual Server, and would make Virtual Server 2005 R2 available free.
Open source software such as Apache Web server and the Linux server operating system have become popular systems to run not only on network servers, but also on server appliances (servers dedicated to single tasks such as e-mail and Web site hosting).
"Each server does not know the source or final destination of the content, " Hill said, comparing it to a spy that delivers a secret message to a clandestine location, but who has no idea where the message ends up.
But if you take into account the use of open source products like Xen and KVM in massive data centers, web server farms, and by web application providers like Google and Salesforce.com, the CPUs running open source virtualization likely dwarfs the commercial market.
Apache, a software project of the open source movement, claims the majority of the Web server market.
The ABC process allows OnLive to be unshackled from the expensive server contracts and bring in a new source of venture capital.
Open-source programs across the board - the Apache Web server, the Perl programming language and the GNU development tool set, to name a few - are gaining legitimacy as a business platform.
Yet Linux and the similarly free Apache web server, as products of the fragmented open-source movement, will find it hard to create a tightly integrated and well-architected platform for developing applications something that Mr Gates understands better than anyone.
Proxy server programs like Tor and Psiphon could also mask the source of changes on the site.
Last month Apple announced it was releasing to developers source code for a few key components of its Mac OS X Server operating system.
Chief among these open-source programmes is Linux, now a real alternative to Microsoft Windows for server computers (and one that even runs on a few aficionados' desktop computers).
Facebook released server, data center and infrastructure technology today, making it open source for others to build on.
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Competition from rival open source operating system, Linux, is stalling Microsoft's growth in the server market, but desktop dominance remains intact: Windows installed in 94% of PCs being sold.
Point it at a site or an entire domain, such as .edu, and it generates a list of e-mails, log-in screens, database errors and source code, all of which are classic ways to gain entry onto a server.
Those who rely on email aliases will also like that Microsoft has finally let us choose an SMTP server to send messages from non-Outlook addresses without revealing the true source -- we won't have to put up with "on behalf of" tags any longer.
They have lost their source code, leaked an upcoming redesign, had to restore data on at least one server, and have to sweep for any shells the attackers may have left behind.
Red Hat hopes its support of multiple open source applications running on Linux will make the platform more attractive to corporate network managers looking for cheaper alternatives to commercial server operating systems.
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