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This is tired old FUD that you Microsoft shills trot out all the time.

Can you name one technology that Microsoft innovated? And by the way, it doesn't count if they bought it from someone else.

Ok, now to your original question:
1. Alchemy
2. Bespin
3. Bitcoin
4. eyeOS
5. KDE Social Desktop
6. Ksplice
7. Unity
8. HTTP, the Web, TCP/IP, and ARPAnet
9. X Windows
10. Perl
11. Slashdot
12. Google keeps playing with open source, but can't make up their minds. Here are some
13. Microsoft plays with open source, here are some. This must just eat you up. Too bad, Open Source is everywhere.
14. Here are some more innovative open source projects.

Now, I expect you to provide at least 5 innovative projects Microsoft created within the last 10 years. (Sorry, you can't count Windows or Office, since those ideas are much older, and are no longer considered innovative.)

Failing that, at least read what I wrote.

Right. Upgrade to a modern HTTP server like Nginx http://www.nginx.net/ or Lighttpd, you won't regret it.

And if for some reason you really need Apache 1.3.x, this code is maintained by OpenBSD and an enhanced version is shipped with the OS.

I know this is a bit off-subject, but every time I hear people talk about Apache, I wonder if it's not starting to lose ground. Look at a lot of the new "Web 2.0" sites -- they often run less monolithic servers, which often support FCGI and other features natively. I am talking about nginx, lighthttpd and the like. Will these stay a niche market or is Apache going to feel the competition?

> What's tomorrow's postfix?

Maybe nginx? highscalability.com has an article about a popular Rails Facebook app that replaced a hardware load balancer with a dedicated nginx box. 10M hits a day, not bad.

nginx - It's the new lighttpd, dontcha know?

Linux Apache/2.0.46 (Unix) PHP/4.3.3

lol

yea whats up with apache being such a ram memory hug? i recommend the author switches to lighttpd or nginx

As far as Lighttpd is concerned, there is an up and coming competitor called nginx (Engine X). Its reputation is that it has all the benefits of Lighty, minus the memory leaks.

I have benchmarked APC vs. eAccelerator and found that eAccelerator is some 13% faster. It also has significantly lower memory consumption than APC.

Nginx gets my vote for a http server facing onto Mongrel. http://nginx.net/

I'm a .NET dev so having to set up web servers on a Linux box aint my favourite passtime... leave the politics outside, it's my paycheck not yours... but I had a need to test a RoR app I'm working on for both Windows and Linux, which quickly became a decision to make it Linux only... anyhow, pretty much all the options I was chewing my way through were driving me nuts, with nginx being last on the list before saying "screw it".

Took me 20 min to find, download, build, and configure nginx facing onto a mongrel cluster as a complete Linux muppet. The benchmarks for nginx are also pretty impressive and there's not a long list of scare stories associated with memory leaks.

Over the holidays I'll be seeing if there's any virtue in nginx facing onto a mono/xsp cluster. I don't like the Apache support for xsp 2.

As a side note, Ruby on Rails desperately needs to clean up it's act on deploying apps for anything other than the trivial. It very quickly turns into a minefield.

I'll also sign off by saying I'm a potentially naive source for a recommendation on how to best set up a RoR app on Linux. Do read around yourself if you take a gander at nginx. I'm potentially missing the virtues of several alternatives (most of which I have tried and rejected as flaky).