“Combination Brings Commercial Reliability to Valuable Open
Source Software.“
“Digital Creations, creator of Zope(TM) and the leader in Open
Source web development, announced that it is partnering with Fast
Engines, the leader in web server acceleration software, to provide
commercial-grade scalability for the Zope web application server.
The alliance will dramatically improve the ability of high-volume
e-commerce sites to handle peak traffic flows. Because Fast Engines
enables load balancing across a wide range of platforms, dynamic
applications operating in a cross-platform server environment can
function reliably, even at peak times with ‘flash crowds’.”
“With the agreement, Digital Creations will provide its clients
with pre- configured versions of Fast Engine’s Fast.Serv product
starting January 7, 2000. Fast.Serv is a commercial implementation
of the open source FastCGI Protocol for high-performance
integration of web servers and web applications. Zope already
provides integration with open implementations of FastCGI, but it
lacks the high-volume load balancing and cross-platform features of
Fast.Serv.”