PCWorld is reporting this morning that Yahoo is planning to release some of it's, technologies including storage technologies to the open source community. These are the systems that Yahoo built to help it handle lage numbers of users on its websites. They established a working group on open source at Yahoo and will be evaluating technologies that could qualify to be released to open source.
The release of the technology to the open source community helps Yahoo build recognition and technical brand with the community, and also develop relationships with universities and companies.
Over the years yahoo has been in decline against Giants such as Microsoft, and Google in the Search market as well as WEB Portals. This move would be seen as trying to recapture some of it former stature. I myself once used their Chatroom technology alot. It would be interesting to see if they will open source that technology as well.
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