“An open source Web server originally formed by taking all the “patches” (fixes) to the NCSA Web server and making a new server out of it.”
“Can refer to either the Apache Digital Corporation, a company building web servers, or the Apache Software Foundation, hosting Apache open-source software projects, e.g. the Apache HTTP Server or Tomcat. The Apache Software Foundation incorporates, among others, the Apache XML Project consisting of Xerces, Xalan, Cocoon, FOP, Xang, and SOAP. The xml.apache.org project has the support of, among others, IBM and Sun. Apache Digital Corporation Apache Software Foundation Apache XML Project.”
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