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InfoWorld Names its Hall of Fame FOSS Apps

InfoWorld is preparing for its annual Bossie awards, a list of the best open source software choices for business. The Bossie awards usually include some surprises, as you'll find among last year's winners. (Are you a Splunk or Ophcrack user?) InfoWorld plans to name this year's Bossie winners on August 31st, but in advance of that, the publication has compiled its list of the 36 most useful and important free open source projects in history. Some of the hall of famers are obvious, such as Ubuntu, but not all of them are.


Unbound: More Thoughts on a New DNS Server

A new player has entered the arena: Unbound is an open-source DNS server written, maintained, and distributed by a consortium of Internet companies that specialize in domain-name sales and management (NLnet Labs, Verisign, Nominet, and Kirei), and released under the BSD license. As Mike noted, Unbound has the potential to challenge the DNS monoculture.



Unbound Wants to Challenge the DNS Monoculture

With gazillions of sites on the internet, one of the key pieces of infrastructure is the lowly DNS server. If you think about a world where you're required to locate servers by IP address instead of name, you'll quickly appreciate DNS.

In the world of DNS servers, BIND is dominant, running over 70 percent of all DNS servers according to a recent survey. Now a relatively new entry in the market, Unbound, wants to change that.