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The Register: Linux not behind investment bank open source shindig

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 7, 2001

“About a week ago, we wrote about plans by Dresdner Kleinwort
Wasserstein, the German investment bank, to release its Openadaptor
software to the open source community.”

It seems that we, along with a lot of other publications,
got the wrong end of the stick. In the first report we said it was
based on Linux, Apache and a bunch of other stuff that wasn’t quite
right.

“My only excuse is that my editor made do it, and a pretty poor
excuse it is too.”

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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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