Scott Marlowe wrote: > While Apache is and has been wildly popular for bulk hosing and domain > parking, for serious commercial use, Netscape's enterprise server, now Sun > One, has long been a leader in commercial web sites.
Netscrape/SunONE may have been a leader in some sub-market, but this misses the point. Apache + NCSA never had less than 50% market share, overall. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html Postgres is in a completely different situation: 95+?% of the world's databases don't run on Postgres, and it's been this way for a long time. Also, Apache never had "MyApache", a more popular version that many believe to be "free" and "open source". My point: Apache was successful in a situation that may not apply here. Does anyone know of an open source project that *has* successfully displaced a market of mature, established products WITHOUT a commercial entity providing marketing, support & direction? -andy ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster