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The Apache Investment

So after years of pitting IIS against the Apache Web server, the famous "A" in the open source LAMP stack, Microsoft is now backing the Apache Software Foundation. Redmond Media Group Editorial Director Doug Barney has an opinion on why Microsoft would do that.

Posted by Scott Bekker on July 29, 2008 at 11:58 AM


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