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O’Reilly.net: GoLive 6: Adobe’s Open Source Embrace

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 5, 2002

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Adobe has never expressed close feelings for either open-source
software or the Unix and Linux platforms. As Linux has risen in
popularity and open source has increased in quality and
availability, Adobe provided only sporadic and incomplete support.
Photoshop under Red Hat? Nope. But Acrobat Reader for certain Unix
flavors? Sure.

“GoLive 6 marks a decided change in attitude from Adobe. In the
interests of a competitive product and a complete server feature
set, the company leapt into bed with Apache, Tomcat (a JSP server),
MySQL, and PHP under both the Darwin environment of Mac OS X and
the modern NT-style architecture of Windows XP and 2000.

“As Derrick Story noted in the first article of this series,
GoLive emerged from the graphic design world in which the program
started as a WYSIWYG page layout tool. Over time, it evolved into a
full-featured editor with support for JavaScript, Cascading Style
Sheets, and Dynamic HTML, working alongside a drag-and-drop site
management system…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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