Standing on the shoulders of open source giants
One of the important driving factors behind this whole “Web 2.0” thing is the ready availability of superb, production-class software and support for free. We remember the last dot-com wave – where every new startup was required to do the ritual self-flagellation of “Oracle and Sun, we know we need to scale” in order to get VC funding. Well, we don’t have Oracle, and we don’t have Sun (though those new Sun Opteron boxes are looking pretty good) but what we do have is enormous, unending gratitude for the folks behind the open source projects who made Zvents possible:
- Linux (Red Hat and CentOS)
- Ruby on Rails
- lighttpd and Apache
- Lucene and Nutch
- MySQL
- script.aculo.us
- Openrico
- Subversion
- Trac
- Typo
Yes, you guys really are changing the world. We love this new world, and are excited to be a part of it. We’ve only had a chance to contribute a few small patches during our mad rush to launch, but now that our baby is out the door we hope to spend more time giving back to the community. If you have any questions about how Zvents works, just ask!
Many, many thanks.
—The Zvents Team
Tyler, Tom, Ethan, Matt, Paul, Tim, Chris, and Allie
linux mysql open source Ruby Ruby on Rails
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Zvents Developers Blog » Tyler, Patrick Norton, Digital Life TV, Ajax, Ruby Said,
August 3, 2007 @ 4:45 pm
[…] Yes, these are all nouns we like here at Zvents. Well, they all came together tonight as Tyler talked AJAX and Ruby on Rails with Patrick Norton on Tech TV. You can download this segment at Ziff Davis’ site. I’d tell you when Tyler comes on, but you should watch the whole cool show. Thanks to Digital Life TV, and thanks to all the open-source guys who built these rockin’ projects! […]