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What's The Greatest Web Software Ever?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lynx-versus-links dept.

An anonymous reader writes "What's The Greatest Web Software Ever Written?, Charlie Babcock of InformationWeek asks, in his follow up to last year's widely read list of greatest software period. The winner then was BSD 4.3. The new Top 12 list is a little funky in that it doesn't distinguish between apps, sites, and controls — XMLHttpRequest object set — is one of the winners. It includes many of the usual suspects, like Digg and AIM, along with some unexpected winners. (like World of Warcraft) The number one choice however, Apache server, is arguably correct."

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  1. Re:PHP all the way. by swsuehr · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually no, Apache isn't popular because of PHP. Apache was quite popular well before PHP was even *invented*. Apache + Perl as a development stack was quite popular prior to PHP and still is to this day.

    The LAMP stack was simply the *only* way to develop web apps and definitely didn't become popular as an alternative to ASP. Rather, ASP was developed as an alternative to the Apache stack.

  2. Skip the Ads, here's the picks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    In the same order as the author used in the 7th ad-filled page*:

    12. AOL Instant Messenger
    11. Digg
    10. Hotmail
    9. World Of Warcraft
    8. Wikipedia
    7. XMLHttpRequest object set
    6. Amazon.com
    5. eBay
    4. The Well
    3. Craigslist
    2. AltaVista
    1. Apache

    *If you want to say thank you, mod up -- and thank YOU.