google说网络很大，微软说开源！
网络有多大？最近，Google官方BLOG发表了We knew the web was big…这篇文章，主动提到网络究竟有多大这个问题。
We’ve known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we’ve seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days — when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!
根据Google的观点说法，在1998年，Google己经索引了两千六百万页；到了2000年，网页的索引数己经达到十亿，至于八年后的如今，整个网络世界己经堂堂进入上万亿页的门坎。
事实上，“网络有多大？”这个问题的可怕之处，并不在于上亿上兆的天文数字，而是它的不断扩张增长。
另一个网络很大、变化倏忽的左证则是：Google决定放弃并购Digg了。
说完google说微软，根据Microsoft pledges love and money to open source这篇报导所言，长久以来，将开源码自由软件视为最大威胁的微软，如今竟一反常态地转而投入开源码的行列。
After years of hostility towards Free Software Foundation (FSF) licensing (here and here) Microsoft has announced the first in a series of PHP patches – and it’s using an FSF license.
从这篇报导看来，微软之所以转而投入PHP并采用Free Software Foundation (FSF) licensing，着眼点应该在于长期稳居服务器市场霸主地位的Apache HTTP Web Server。
如何让Apache+Windows的市占率迅速追赶上Apache+Linux，大概就是现阶段微软尝试克服他们最大威胁的努力重点。
发布在: 2008年7月27日 | 分类: 热点话题
Tags: apache, google, microsoft, 微软