ServerWatch: Roxen: How Much Is Too Much Functionality? | Linux Today

ServerWatch: Roxen: How Much Is Too Much Functionality?

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Aaron Weiss
Jan 30, 2005

“The Web server market would seem like an uninviting sector to
enter considering only a few products dominate. In one corner,
lightweight and free, is the ever popular Apache Web server. In the
other corner, proprietary and bulked up, is Microsoft’s IIS. Is
there room in the ring for anyone else? Swedish company Roxen
certainly believes so, as illustrated by Roxen Web Server–another
contender among the free and open source.

“Apache and Roxen are open source products built from different
perspectives. Apache is a relatively lightweight, efficient
(particularly v2.x) Web serving engine onto which administrators
can graft a wide range of modules to build an overall Web serving
or Web application solution. Roxen, in contrast, is
monolithic…”

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