A major revision to the popular open-source Apache server software has entered beta testing--much later than its developers had hoped. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Open Source middleware for managing, unifying, and archiving data used in critical scientific applications, including NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, and Children’s Hospital ...

Citrix today said that software for building Amazon EC2-style cloud platforms will be submitted to the Apache Software Foundation in an effort to accelerate its development. Amazon popularized ...

Open source in 2019 is commonplace and serves as the foundation for much of modern IT infrastructure, including the cloud—but it wasn’t entirely that way in 1999. Twenty years ago, the Apache Software ...

While many popular website applications (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.) are open source and therefore freely available, running these PHP-based apps on a Windows IIS web server requires a bit of ...

The epic struggle between Netscape and Microsoft over software for the World Wide Web is a well-chronicled David versus Goliath tale. But both companies are losing business to a rival product few ...

Continuing the theme from my previous column on the relative security of Internet Information Service (IIS) vs. Apache, I’ve come across more studies to support my initial conclusion. If you remember, ...

You can upload files to an Apache Web server in two different ways: via a standalone File Transfer Protocol application or a Web-based control panel. Standalone FTP applications act as independent ...