ServerWatch Staff

“As Jagielski explained it, the Zend people did not just sit in a room and conjure up their best guesses about what the market needed or wanted, or which itch they wanted to scratch, to use one of the less appealing cliches from open source. Instead they took the radical step of going out and […]

“What I will be revealing in these columns will be the design of Perl 6. Or more accurately, the beginnings of that design, since the design process will certainly continue after I’ve had my initial say in the matter. I’m not omniscient, rumors to the contrary notwithstanding. This job of playing God is a little […]

“Server Showcase is a ServerWatch feature that aims to highlight unique, “break-through” servers or those that are extraordinarily popular. This month we have selected Zope.” “Zope may well be one of the best-kept server secrets. The open-source groupware server is designed for content and portal management. It is aimed at enterprises looking to create Web-based […]

“Dell today announced that Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc. will equip every Toyota and Lexus auto dealer in the United States with a Dell PowerApp.web 100 appliance server to provide customized digital content to each dealer. The Web appliance servers, which will run the Red Hat Linux 6.2 operating system and Apache Web server, will […]

“A survey by research firm Netcraft, reports that Apache is the most popular software package for web servers. It is three times more popular than Microsoft’s Internet Information Server. The Apache Software Foundation said it has successfully tested the beta, which is available at Apache.org, on many versions of Unix, BeOS, Mac OS X and […]

“This week we take a break from TCP/IP ports and sashay back into the realm of languages. Our target is PHP, a language that has come a long way from its humble roots as a set of macros for building personal home pages on Web servers. Today, PHP is a server-side scripting language that is […]

The transcript of an interview with the Chief Technology Officer of NuSphere Corp., a provider of packaged MySQL solutions. Britt discusses the rise of open source databases such as MySQL, how NuSphere adds value to this popular app, and answers questions from the audience. What are the pros and cons of open source systems? Do […]

This week: Under development, featured articles, in the news, and Apache-related jobs. This week: Under development, featured articles, in the news, and Apache-related jobs.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy on Wednesday joked about the freefall in technology stocks, even as the computer maker faces a slowdown of its own, due in part to the death of those same one-time Internet high-flyers. NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sun Microsystems Chairman Scott McNealy on Wednesday joked about the […]

Sun is entering the world of instant messaging, through its new iPlanet Portal Server: Instant Collaboration Pack. Sun is entering the world of instant messaging, through its new iPlanet Portal Server: Instant Collaboration Pack. The new environment incorporates what the company calls “collaborative, community-based instant messaging.” Through its portal-based model, the Instant Collaboration Pack supports […]

“The server war between IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. heated up Friday with an IBM executive declaring the company plans to target a ‘hit list’ of Sun’s top accounts with its new xSeries servers.” The server war between IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. heated up Friday with an IBM executive declaring the company […]

“If you were following JavaOne a few weeks back, you probably heard about how Sun and the Apache Software Foundation have resolved their difficulties over the way open source software could participate in the Java community process but if you were like the majority of Java developers, the precise issues were probably a bit of […]