Apache is a freely available Web
server that is distributed under an "open source" license. Version 2.0 runs on most
UNIX-based operating systems (such as
Linux,
Solaris, Digital UNIX, and
AIX
), on other UNIX/
POSIX-derived systems (such as Rhapsody,
BeOS, and BS2000/OSD), on AmigaOS, and on
Windows 2000. According to a Netcraft (www.netcraft.com) Web server survey 60% of all Web sites on the Internet are using Apache (62% including Apache derivatives), making Apache more widely used than all other Web servers combined.
According to the Apache Software Foundation:
The name 'Apache' was chosen from respect for the Native American Indian tribe of Apache, well-known for their superior skills in warfare strategy and their inexhaustible endurance. It also makes a cute pun on "a patchy web server" -- a server made from a series of patches -- but this was not its origin. The group of developers who released this new software soon started to call themselves the "Apache Group".
Contributor(s): Christopher Kowalsky
This was last updated in July 1997
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