Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.7.5/V2.0) id RAA23655; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 17:18:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net by taz.hyperreal.com (8.7.5/V2.0) with SMTP id RAA23650; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 17:18:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ad03544; 20 Aug 96 0:18 GMT Received: from aaaaaaaa.demon.co.uk ([158.152.178.85]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa27541; 20 Aug 96 0:53 +0100 Received: (from andrew@localhost) by aaaaaaaa.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.9) id AAA02807 for new-httpd@hyperreal.com; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:51:48 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Wilson Message-Id: <199608192351.AAA02807@aaaaaaaa.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Things to tell a reporter? To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:51:47 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <199608192309.AAA00336> from "Rob Hartill" at Aug 20, 96 00:09:38 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8891-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com You could mention Marc Fournier and Co's work with Postgres95 (and the implicit support from Stonebreaker et al - the premier DMBS research group on the net - out of Berkeley). The theme, in this case, being more 'why free software' than 'why Apache'. On the same theme, Sun's 'reappraisal' of their tcltk expertiese can be concidered as official support for a free software (source available) project with a high profile on the net. So far as the 'why Apache servers' question goes, the simplest answer is 'what is the alternative?'. So far as the 'what is the future for web' goes, both NS and O (but not M) offer near peer-to-peer HTTP with their new browser tools. Apache has, to date, been unable to offer a free alternative to the browser technologies available. Browsers outnumber servers by to one. ... Ay.