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Apache Foundation celebrates 10 years

By Alex Handy

December 1, 2009 — (Page 1 of 3)
It's been a long time since the National Center for Supercomputing Applications held sway over the way the Web worked. But it is with the NCSA that the story of Apache begins.

Five years after Web pioneers from around the Internet began modifying the NCSA HTTPd server for their various business purposes, the Apache Software Foundation was formed. Ten years after that, the ASF has become one of the most influential and successful open-source bodies in the world.

At ApacheCon, held the first week of November in Oakland, software developers and IT administrators came from around the world to learn about the more than 100 projects now under the Apache Foundation's umbrella. It was a markedly different time and place for a Foundation that began as just another free software movement with only one project.

Justin Erenkrantz, president of the ASF, said that the sheer size of the ASF is the biggest change for him since he joined in 2001.

“It's gotten a lot bigger,” said Erenkrantz. “When we started out in 2001, it was maybe five or six projects. There was the Apache HTTP server, there was this thing called Jakarta…Since then, there has been a tremendous explosion of projects: There are 100 different projects [at ASF now], about 75 top-level, and 30 in the incubator.

"Apache Labs is a place for individuals to say, 'I want a sandbox to play with, I'm not sure if it merits being a community yet.' You look at that, and it's a tremendous scale change when you're only dealing with 100, maybe 200 committers at most, and now we're dealing with 2,000 committers on a daily basis.”

Not without controversy
Over the years, the Apache foundation has seen its share of controversy. But when compared to other free software foundations and groups, the ASF has been relatively innocuous.

Aside from public scraps with Microsoft and Sun Microsystems over the years, neither company has been willing to sever ties with the foundation. Indeed, Microsoft's IIS HTTP server has long had only the Apache Web Server as its primary competition, and yet Microsoft recently joined the Apache foundation.

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