Apache

= Apache Software Foundation = toc

Definition
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is a non-profit, collaborative organization founded in 1999 to provide support and maintenance of the open-source HTTPd web server (which was developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications). With the rapid growth of the internet, Apache began to work on a variety of new projects, such as mod_perl, PHP, and Java Apache. ASF began to develop into an organization capable of providing legal support for individual contributors, and began to define its organization by the various projects under development (which now numbers close to 100). ASF is governed by a Board of Directors and Project Management Committees,all of whom are volunteers. New ASF projects are reviewed, accepted (or not), supervised and evaluated by the Foundation Incubator, which strives to ensure that all projects reach the "open meritocratic environment" that is central to ASF.

The Apache Logo: Source: The Apache Software Foundation, www.apache.org

Applications
As Apache's products are all open source applications, they can potentially be used by web developers and programers in libraries and information centers. IBM developerWorks includes a collection of documents outlining the use of Apache open-source software. To access these, search for "apache" from IBM developerWorks.

News
Apache is being forced into a Java Fork NASA Tech Gets Open Source Apache Blessing Hadoop at Yahoo! Cloudera and SGI Partner to take High Performance Computing on Apache Hadoop to the Next Level Google Wave to ride again as open source Apache project Apache Harmony is Dead. Open JDK Wins Open Source Java Battle

**References**
The Apache Software Foundation. Retrieved from http://www.apache.org.

IBM developerWorks. Retrieved from http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/