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News from ApacheCon US 2002

Posted by michael on from the over-99-billion-served dept.

pdw writes "Apache Week this week has a feature detailing the happenings at last week's ApacheCon in Vegas. Read up to find out what's new in the world of Apache."

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  1. Sun is helping Apache... but where is Sun going? by dagg · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From ApacheCon Day 3: "Fowler noted the major contributions Sun has made not only to Apache and related projects such as Tomcat, but also in non-Apache related projects such as the Gnome desktop and OpenOffice.org."

    I believe Sun is having a hard time finding a direction, right now. Hardware? Software? Work on free stuff? Beat Microsoft? I wonder where they are going to end up.

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  2. Read All About it Last Week by No_Weak_Heart · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I enjoyed reading about this event last week. Thanks to Micheal Radwin's blog

    and hey, thanks for the tips!

  3. Migrating to Apache 2.x by Hilleh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A nice read, if a bit light, but I still have to wonder how the "Migrating to Apache 2.0" seminar went. I mean, I started my webserving hobby at the 2.0 stage, but I actually reverted back to 1.3.7 because most of the side projects that make Apache so versataile just aren't there yet. I am eager to upgrade to a 2.x series (technology for technology's sake...I love upgrading things just because), but at this time for a small website, I'm just not seeing the necessity.

    My point being, although I am coming to it in a roundabout fashion...what are the benefits for the average (or even above average) website migrating over to 2.0 at this time? Just seems sorta pointless to me right now.

    Of course, that also goes back to the "Alpha Geeks" thing O'Reilly talked about. Hopefully the fully usable apache 2 goodness will filter down to my level sometime :).

    1. Re:Migrating to Apache 2.x by endrek · · Score: 2, Interesting

      The useability and benifits will come as more people migrate. If I am a developer, will I develope my package fro the 1.3.* or 2.0.* series. Right now, possible the 1.3.* series because that's where most of the people are. But if more people start using the 2.* series, than I'd have a large target audiancs (and a larger demand in general) so I might consider it.

      Sometimes you simply have to start using something to make it viable.

      Again, consider if some one introduces a new language. At first no one will learn it because no one else uses it. But as more people start to use it, more will want to use it because it is more viable.

      (For referance, I am currently using apache 2.0.43 for my site. Had some dificulty getting php working, but it does, and so does perl, and thats about all I need so I'm good). :)