Why your server software is important (and why it needs to be open source)
If you are in the market for a website, you’re priority concern is to address your intended audience (and maybe identifying who this audience is before even that stage). You probably wont think too much about the nuts and bolts of the software your site will be using – this will be the responsibility of your web-designer, after all. Think again.
Successful websites are organic creations – your audience is going to change, and you are going to want to change with them. The last thing you need is to have your website integrated with a server technology that is no longer supported. Can’t happen? – Think again (again).
On April 15th 2010 Microsoft pulled Live support from its original X-boxes – not a very old piece of kit. If you’ve got one, it is now obsolete (at least for online multi-player stuff).
Your problem with any piece of proprietary software is that you can never own all of it, and when there is not enough money to be made out of selling new copies…
Live support ends, Slashdot documents the last online game of Halo 2
