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 Behlendorf: Open source at a 'tipping point', Dec 17, 2003

Behlendorf believes that the open source movement is now at a major crossroads ("tipping point") because it has moved from being centered in far-flung, independent development shops or studios and is becoming more crucial to day-to-day work in the established business world. "Look at Apache," he said. "It's been running 60% of all the world's Web sites for six years now. I think it's now up to about 67%; it increases something like .2% per month. That's pretty amazing, when you think about it."

Covalent Technologies, a leader in Web application management solutions, today announced Covalent Application Manager (CAM) is the first complete management solution for the open source stack. Covalent Application Manager manages all major open source Web application resources including Tomcat, Jboss, Linux, Apache, and MySQL, solving the current "Achilles heel" of enterprise open source adoption. Covalent also announced momentum for this solution with the signing of two enterprise customers.

The customers utilizing CAM to manage their open source stack are La Quinta, a hotel chain with more than 360 properties in 33 states, and National Semiconductor, an analog technology company with yearly sales over $1.67 billion. This customer adoption is testament to the power of CAM to manage the growing number of open source resources deployed in the enterprise.

Apache has a significant percentage gain this month as register.com, a leading domain registrar with a domain parking system serving responses for over one million domains eliminated its Windows front end, and reverted to Linux and Apache which it ran previously. Barely weeks ago its largest rival, Network Solutions made a similar switch from Microsoft-IIS back to SunOne, nee Netscape-Enterprise, for its own domain parking system.

Primarily a bug fix, Version 1.3.28 improves on 1.3.27 with more than a dozen patches including a new "ap_register_cleanup_ex" API function which allows for a "magic" cleanup function to be run at register time rather than at cleanup time.

The Apache Software Foundation on Monday released a new version of its open-source Web server project to plug four potentially serious security holes

Apache is far and away the most popular web server, with more than double Microsoft's market share. But perhaps market share is the wrong term, since anyone can download and install Apache free of charge. It is an open source product, maintained by the the Apache Project, which describes itself as "a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating a robust, commercial-grade, featureful, and freely available source code implementation of an HTTP web server."

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