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February 28, 2005
Apache turns 10
According to Netcraft, he Apache Web Server turns 10 years-old today. Happy Birthday! In 1995, NCSA had 57 percent of the web server market. In some ways, that seems like a lifetime ago. I was struck by how modest Brian Behlendorf was in his assessment of the success of the Apache project.
"I imagine most of the growth continues to be either with the small mom-n-pop companies, or web hosting ISPs, or internationally - all places where price sensitivity is high, where the economic downturn is still causing budgets to be hurt, and there's willingness to consider an Open Source approach to solving a given problem," said Behlendorf. "I imagine the rise of related Apache projects, like the continued rise in use of mod_perl and Tomcat and our friends over at PHP, have only increased the confidence in using the web server for mission-critical situations."
Maybe it's because it's the best web server on the market at any price?
Posted by michael at February 28, 2005 05:15 AM