Apache Perspective

Don’t believe there is even such a thing as an Apache perspective? Maybe you need to read on…

At the opposite extreme, the actual sessions were remarkably quiet, civilized, and low-key. Verging, in fact, on boring. There are debates raging: WS-* vs. REST, EE vs. .NET vs. LAMP, Linux vs. Solaris vs. Windows. But you don’t hear about any of this stuff coming off the stage at ApacheCon.

I was unable to attend ApacheCon this year, but I have kept up via reading feeds and talking to people who did attend.

Tim’s point reminds me of Doc’s reaction to ApacheCon the previous year. He found that he could go up to a person and ask them if they had heard of some recent announcement by Microsoft which was reportedly going to change everything. Typical response: no. And to be honest, I no longer even remember what announcement Doc was asking about. [Read the rest]