(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Demonstrating its commitment to the open source community, managed web hosting provider ServInt (www.servint.net) has joined The Linux Foundation (www.linuxfoundation.org), the nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and growth of Linux.
According to its Tuesday announcement, ServInt’s commitment as a Silver Member in The Linux Foundation will enable it to take advantage of important networking events, as well as participate in Virtualization and Green Linux workgroups. Founded in 2007, The Linux Foundation sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux and open source companies and developers from around the world. The Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by hosting important workgroups, events and online resources such as Linux.com.
“The majority of our business is built on Linux,including our industry-leading virtual private server and managed dedicated server solutions,” ServInt founder and chief executive officer Reed Caldwell said in a statement. “Implementing a virtualization strategy based on Linux helps us minimize energy consumption and reduce overall costs for our customers.”
Amanda McPherson, who is in charge of The Linux Foundation’s marketing and developer programs, said ServInt’s contribution to The Linux Foundation will help the Linux platform meet its future goals. “As one of the web-hosting industry’s founding companies, ServInt understands the value of Linux in shaping the future of IT management,” McPherson said in a statement. “With 15 years experience as one of the world’s leading providers of enterprise managed hosting, ServInt’s contribution to The Linux Foundation will help advance the platform for that future.”
Caldwell concluded, “Our new status as a Silver Member of The Linux Foundation demonstrates our long-term commitment to the open source community.”
Open source has, indeed, played a key role in the growth and success of the Internet. Likewise, many companies have been aligning themselves with open source initiatives in the past few months. Just weeks ago, after undergoing a codebase revision, the code of Windows hosting control panel DotNetPanel was posted as an open source project on applications and software directory SourceForge.NET (www.sourceforge.net) under the name “WebsitePanel”. Also, when Internet giant Google (www.google.com) released a web application scanner in March that lets developers check their applications for security holes, it chose to make it open source.
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