Dossy’s Blog: from the “comically ironic” department

from the “comically ironic” department

For a while now, I’ve been kind of half-seriously joking that AOL should release its Netscape Enterprise Server web server as open source software since it already did with its other web server software, AOLserver.

Today, my joke has become a reality in a way: Red Hat announced that it is acquiring the Netscape Enterprise Suite from AOL and will be releasing it as open source software (press release). The Netscape Enterprise Suite includes Netscape Directory Server and Netscape Certificate Management Server.

Perhaps another one of my long-term visions will also come true: I can finally implement NSAPI support for AOLserver, which would make things a little easier for folks to migrate to AOLserver.

This entry was posted by Dossy Shiobara on Thursday, September 30th, 2004 at 11:32 am and is filed under Geeking out. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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Bruno Mattarollo says:
September 30th, 2004 at 10:05 pm
Wow! That’s big news. Do you think this will have an adverse effect on AOLServer’s adoption or those fill two different niches of the market?
Bruno Mattarollo says:
September 30th, 2004 at 10:08 pm
Doh! I just read the press release … Netscape Enterprise Suite doesn’t include the webserver … Maybe with this we will have a rock solid cert management software that we can use to implement more secure authentication solutions than just OpenLDAP …
Dossy says:
September 30th, 2004 at 11:00 pm
Actually, it is my understanding that the “Netscape Enterprise Suite” consists of the three products: Netscape Enterprise Server, Netscape Directory Server and Netscape Certificate Management Server.

This may have an adverse affect on AOLserver’s adoption — but also opens things up for AOLserver as well, if we can benefit from leveraging or integrating functionality from NES into AOLserver. It’s a win-win, as far as I can see.
Dossy says:
January 21st, 2005 at 10:46 am
Apparently, Rohan Pinto found this blog entry worth reposting in his own blog:

http://www.rohanpinto.com/2005/01/from-comically-ironic-department.html

Thanks to Madhu for bringing it to my attention on his blog:

http://www.madhoo.com/archives/003206.php
Dossy says:
May 25th, 2005 at 8:00 pm
For posterity:

Blizzard wrote something about Sun and Red Hat both looking to release the Netscape assets as open source:

http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/html/2005/01/#200501052359
Dossy says:
June 6th, 2005 at 3:23 pm
The “Fedora Directory Server Project” launched June 1, 2005:

http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Main_Page