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“Yahoo plans to release some technologies, including storage
technologies, to the open source community, a senior executive of
the company said.“These are systems that Yahoo built to help it handle large
numbers of users on its websites, but that don’t necessarily give
it a competitive advantage, said David Chaiken, chief architect at
Yahoo, in an interview in Bangalore on Friday.In 2009, Yahoo donated its Traffic Server scalable caching proxy
to the Apache Software Foundation.”