FACEBOOK LIKES TO share its toys. Over the years, the company has released the source code and designs formany of its internal projects, allowing the rest of the world to use them, modify them, and build on them—all for free.
Plenty of companies are now releasing open source projects in the hopes that other companies will help improve their software, but Facebook stands out because its projects actually end up being used by so many others. A startup called Datastax built an entire company to support users of Facebook’s database Cassandra, and now even Apple is exploring the use of Facebook’s ambitious server designs in its data centers.
So it’s no surprise that one of Facebook’s newest open source projects, Presto, is winning over outside companies too.
Read more at Wired.
