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Mullenweg: Open Source Trumps The Cloud

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 26, 2009

“”When I have to go to the cloud, I consider that a failure,”
said Mullenweg, speaking on a panel at GigaOm’s Structure 09
conference in San Francisco. “The thing that’s been most exciting
to me is how the open source tools have evolved.” In particular,
Mullenweg cited the significant savings WordPress.com has realized
by using the nginx web server for load balancing.”


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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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