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CONTACT: Anne P. Wilson
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ACM Awards Committee Cites the Apache Webserver's Reliability, Flexibility, and Availability New York, April 24, 2000...The Association for Computing Machinery today announced that the ACM's Software System award will be given to the design team who created Apache's Webserver software. The Apache Group, co-founded by Brian Behlendorf, Roy T. Fielding, Rob Hartill, David Robinson, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert S. Thau, and Andrew Wilson, will receive the award at the ACM's annual Awards Banquet on Saturday, May 6, 2000 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. See http://www.apache.org/ for more details about Apache. Apache is currently the world's leading Webserver software. A recent Netcraft survey estimates that approximately 7.8 million copies of the server are currently in use. The Apache project began in February and the software, which is open source, was developed by a group of volunteers spread around the world. The ACM Awards Committee noted that "Because Apache's source code is available to all, this high-quality server has allowed research on Web service to develop and gain credibility in the commercial world." The Committee also said that Apache has advanced the software development process and public impact: "The Webserver was developed by a small group of webmasters, who conducted and coordinated their activities through the Internet. They used a new 'process' for Internet-Scale software engineering, featuring an open source development license, open development process, open problem reporting and response, and Internet-scale development tools (repositories). As a consequence, Apache is also highly trusted: open source review ensures secure, publicly inspected implementation." The ACM awards committee cited the following advantages offered by Apache Webserver:
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