Re: Hal's new white paper
Shiraz Kanga <[email protected]>
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Very often, an Apache HTTPD is used to front mid-tier app servers. So in numbers from NetCraft you are likely to see things like BEA, Tomcat and I guess WebSphere all count in the Apache bucket. There's a good reason to do it that way. Nobody wants their App Servers serving up static html / images when Apache is much more efficient at it. So that's not a ding on Apache at all. But the correct answer is .... it depends on the topology. But at least at Cisco & HP (where I've been behind the scenes) - that's how it works. shiraz -- Shiraz Kanga Founder - Findant Corp [email protected] The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt Danese Cooper wrote: > Do you guys know (I've always wondered)?...does NetCraft roll the > WebSphere numbers in with Apache numbers? Or is the 68% cleanly OSS > Apache? > > Danese > > Tim O'Reilly wrote: > >> >> On Mar 28, 2004, at 4:05 AM, Ben Laurie wrote: >> >>> >>> Amusing that they quote Websphere as an example of commercial s/w >>> that runs on Linux, when Websphere is based on Apache. >> >> >> >> But WebSphere does have many commercial components as well. It's a >> classic example of one model for how to commercialize open source: >> wrap a bunch of free and proprietary components together into an >> inseparable whole, and sell that. Much the same model as OS X, just >> in another sector of the industry. >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> --------------- >> Tim O'Reilly @ O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. >> 1005 Gravenstein Highway North, Sebastopol, CA 95472 >> 707-827-7000 >> http://www.oreilly.com (company), http://tim.oreilly.com (personal) >> >