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The Apache Visit to Microsoft Campus: Day One

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This morning, we've had the honor of hosting the Apache Software Foundation in the Windows Server 2008 Application Labs.  They are here this week in order to get some deep knowledge about Windows Server 2008, and access to the folks from product groups who can help them make their apps work better under Windows Server.

We asked them out to campus because we are extremely interested in having the Apache web server (well, all the Apache projects) run great on Windows Server 2008.  Now, every time I say that, some folks always want to know "Why would you want that?" or "What do the IIS folks think about that?"

Well, it turns out that some folks have apps that run on Apache.  Yes, even on Windows. Sometimes, it's a matter of investment in a particular solution where their app uses Apache. It could even be that they just simply prefer the model that Apache provides. Regardless, it's important to us that those applications run as good as they possibly can on the Windows platform.

As to the question about IIS, there are several Apache projects like Tomcat that currently support IIS, and hey, we'd like to have even better support.  To make that happen, we've asked some folks from the IIS team to join us in the labs, where they can open up and give the assistance that is needed.

So far, we've just gotten started, with two fine gentlemen from the Compatibility Lab (Pat Altimore and Maarten Van De Bospoort) presenting a great session about general compatibility issues with Windows Server 2008.

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    February 25, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2008
    The question shouldn't be why would Microsoft want Apache to run on Windows.  The question is, why would an Apache user want to run Apache on Windows?  Some folks have apps that run on Apache?!  I think you should say "More folks have apps on Apache" than on Windows.

  • Anonymous
    February 27, 2008
    When Microsoft officially launches Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 in one

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    February 29, 2008
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