Lacking stock to use as currency, O'Reilly has been forced to pass on a number of strategic acquisitions for his software division, which makes a Windows-based Web server called WebSite.

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They are designed to make it easier for developers to create server-side Web-based applications.

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Netscape Enterprise Web Server and a browser-based tool for managing it.

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The office suite includes Exchange, Microsoft Office, SharePoint and Lync Server, among other web-based productivity tools.

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Today, client-server architectures have been replaced by browser-based user Web applications and the cost of computing has fallen dramatically which, along with cloud computing, have made scalability issue quite a different proposition.

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Spencer based Asterisk on Apache , the freebie software that powers many a Web server.

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Our data consistently shows Web site response times vary from region to region based on the physical location of a cloud server machine.

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By enabling applications to both scale in capacity and provide non-stop availability, server-farms have played a major role in the rapid expansion of Web-based computing.

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"No one runs large, million-hits-per-day Web sites on Linux, " Occleshaw said, adding that IBM would still recommend its AIX Unix-based server to customers that wanted to run large, serious enterprise applications.

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