Sun launches open source Web Stack for Solaris | | 2008-07-23 | | Sun has announced the availability of Sun Web Stack, the company’s version of the popular open-source LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl/Python or PHP) stack. The Web Stack software includes the open source, standards-based software most commonly used for Web-tier application development and services.
Sun also announced that it is open sourcing the core components of the Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 and Sun Java System Web Proxy technologies as part of the Web Stack sub-project of the OpenSolaris community. The Web and Proxy source code will be issued under a BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) license and will be available in thr third quarter of 2008.
"By open sourcing the core technology in our Web and Proxy server, Sun’s goal is to give developers more flexibility, choice and help them achieve faster time to market," said Sun’s Karen Tegan Padir, vice president of engineering, Software Infrastructure. "Through Sun’s enterprise-grade Web software Stack and Sun’s Web and Proxy servers, enterprises and developers now have the option to standardize their development and production environments on open source technology."
Web Stack consists of Web and proxy servers, database and scripting languages, and the Apache HTTP Web server version 2.2.8. The primary components in the Web Stack include the Apache HTTP Web server version 2.2.8, Apache Modules Memcached 1.2.5 (distributed memory object system), MySQL 5.1 Database, lighttpd Web server v 1.4.18, Tomcat Servlet engine 6.0.16, PHP 5.2.5, Ruby 1.8.6, Rails 1.2.3, RubyGems 0.9.0, Mongrel 1.0.1, fcgi package, RedCloth (text parsing), Perl 5.8.8 and extensions, Squid proxy server 2.16.x.
Sun will provide product version control for its supported Web Stack across multiple operating systems so that applications developed for one operating system will be interchangeable with others with minimal modification. Enterprise support is planned to be available for Solaris in the third quarter 2008, Linux (LAMP) support in late 2008 with Windows and other OS support to follow.
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