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Sites Rejecting Apache 2?

Posted by krow on from the what-if-you-build-it-and-they-do-not-come dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Vnunet reports on the low adoption of Apache 2 has caused its producers to advocate freezing development of the open-source Web server until makers of add-in software catch up. Almost six months after the launch of Apache 2, less than one percent of sites use it, due to a lack of suitable third-party modules." I'm not sure where they are getting the freezing Apache development part, more talk about forking for 2.1 right now on the httpd mailing list. The article does have it right though that until there is a reason to upgrade and the modules are in place that adoption is not going to happen. While the cores of both Perl and PHP are thread-safe, the third-party modules are not. This renders one the larger reasons to use Apache 2.0, the threaded http support, useless for applications using either of these application layers. It comes down to the question of whether the third-party module writers are better off supporting what is used or what is new.

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  1. 9/11 = 0.818181818 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Apparently the 9/11 terrorist attack aniversary is soon. Everyone in my office is making fun of me because I don't remember which day it was. Anyone here remember the exact date?

    1. Re:9/11 = 0.818181818 by brsmith4 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Being an american, I am truly sick of hearing about 9/11. CNN 9/11, Foxnews 9/11, BBC 9/11, HBO 9/11 .... aahh!!!! I get the fscking point.

    2. Re:9/11 = 0.818181818 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You're about as funny as the one-trick pony dimwits who put "Cowboy Neal" in the poll EVERY FRICKING DAY FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS.

  2. First by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Troll

  3. Rather ironic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Rather ironic story, considering the story below it was making the ridiculous unsubstantiated claim that there were now more Linux desktops than Macs...lol.

    Believe it or not, most people don't want to use Linux or any of this other buggy, broken, security-hole-filled college sophomore school project software for critical apps, and as soon as turn-key user-proof server in a box software steps up, even if it's as dumbed down as ATM machines (but at least secure) then you aging bearded tie-dye poseur geeks can all be stuck in the retirement home and the real world will never have to hear about your open source pipe dream BS ever again.

  4. Oooty Oooty! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Shake ya damn booty!

  5. this is probably redundant... by intermodal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but this is like when people try to get the latest version of Office to do the same damn thing they did with Office 95 the same way they did it with Office 95, which is collecting dust on their shelf. while they run Office XP on their 2.7 gigahertz box running Windows XP doing the same thing at the same speed they did on a 486DX4 100mhz running Win95 and Office 95...which to be honest is one of the things i like about most opensource projects, the fact that they normally strive for compatibility and improvement... ok, enough run-on sentences from me.

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    In SOVIET RUSSIA... erm...NSA AMERICA, the Internet logs onto YOU!
  6. Re:Progress is good and all but... by dammy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Question is for which Amiga OS? Classic? H&P's wb 3.5/3.9? HYPErions OS4? Berniethlon? AROS? DEad? MorphOS? OH yeah, C='s Unix for the A3000Us?

    Dammy