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Apache Axis C++ v1.0 (Alpha) Released
BSD Forums writes "The Apache Axis team is proud to announce the release of Apache Axis C++ v1.0 (Alpha). This implementation of a C++ SOAP engine provides a stable platform for developing Web services using C/C++ as well as a client side library for developing C/C++ client applications. New features include SOAP engine with both client and server support; partial support for both SOAP 1.1 and SOAP 1.2; WSDD based deployment with dynamic deployment tools and more. Both binary and source are available at Apache mirror sites."
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Apache fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Apache box (a P4 2.4 w/1024 Megs of RAM, on an Qwest OC3) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one directory on the hard drive to another user. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4/IIS 4 (On a dual T1, no less!), which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Apache box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, PHP will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even mod_perl is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Apache machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Apache box that has run faster than its Windows counterpart, despite the Apache machines faster chip architecture. My 486/66 cable modem router with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 2400 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that Apache is a "superior" server.
Apache addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Apache over other faster, cheaper, more stable httpd daemons.
Netcraft confirms
IIS is a poor competitor
Get the best server OS
Get Apache
Everything will "just work"
Really, trust me!
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *Apache community when recently IDC confirmed that *Apache accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *Apache has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *Apache is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *Apache's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *Apache faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *Apache because *Apache is dying. Things are looking very bad for *Apache. As many of us are already aware, *Apache continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeApache is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeApache developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeApache is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenApache leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenApache. How many users of NetApache are there? Let's see. The number of OpenApache versus NetApache posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetApache users. Apache/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetApache posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Apache/OS. A recent article put FreeApache at about 80 percent of the *Apache market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeApache users. This is consistent with the number of FreeApache Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeApache went out of business and was taken over by ApacheI who sell another troubled OS. Now ApacheI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *Apache has steadily declined in market share. *Apache is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *Apache is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *Apache continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *Apache is dead.
Fact: *Apache is dead