Apache keeps rocking

Maybe it was the long-awaited Apache 2 beta release in March, or maybe it was just the "increasing returns" economics by which the huge get ubiquitous while the small get trivial. Any way you look at it, it's hard to beat the

Netcraft Survey's Web server shares for April, 2001

increasing majority Apache -- which is open source -- enjoys as a server of Web content to the World.

Netcraft 's April 2001 survey finds nearly 18 million sites serving with Apache, or 62.55% of the total population of 28,669,939 surveyed sites. That's a 2.3% gain. Microsoft's IIS also gained .89%, achieving 20.64%. Sun/Netscape's iPlanet beat even with a .03% gain, for a 6.27% share. The rest, in total, were down.

Here are some of the improvements in the Apache 2 beta:

• Can run in a hybrid multiprocess, multithreaded mode.
• New Apache Portable Runtime and multi-processing modules
• Filtered input/output modules
• IPv6 support