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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. Its all about the swag by EvilAlien · · Score: 4, Funny
    No doubt the highlight for many at this year's ApacheCon attendees was the Closing Session where Ken Coar raffled off a number of goodies supplied by the conference vendors including books, AMD processors and other wonderful swag.
    +1 Insightful

    I expect good swag for any conference or seminar, whether or not it is a simple day seminar or something more elaborate. If there isn't the possibility of vendor treats, most IT monkeys don't go.

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  2. 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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  3. 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!

  4. 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 aqua · · Score: 5, Informative
      It wasn't that interactive of a session, but it went pretty well. The only two major reasons not to upgrade are that (1) most distros haven't adopted it as the stable-default yet, so you have to do the install by hand, and (2) using a threaded MPM you'll hit trouble if your CGIs depend on non-threadsafe libraries.

      This latter is still the major obstacle, since the number of third-party libraries used by (say) PHP is pretty large. You can eliminate the threaded-MPM obstacles by using the process-based prefork MPM, but you don't get some of apache2's performance improvements, especially on operating systems with slow, expensive forks (Solaris, Win32).

  5. Re:Sun is helping Apache... but where is Sun going by silvaran · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I believe Sun is having a hard time finding a direction, right now.

    Maybe Sun has found their direction. I'm only speculating, but when Microsoft wants to improve their PR, they dump $100 million into India to fight AIDS. I look at Sun in a different light given their contributions to open source. Granted, their may be genuine interest by their employees to donate work and code to the open source community, which leads me to believe that this may not be simply a PR stunt. It's advantageous to Sun to be able to place their mark in software that they believe will eventually be in use by a great number of people (is that a run-on sentence?). I say bring it on. Whatever benefits us as a community benefits the whole, whether it's a group of individuals, or a giant corporation, donating their time and effort.