eBuilt's Fielding Honored for Work With Apache Software Foundation; Nationally Recognized Computing Society Gives Award, Donation

Business Wire, April 27, 2000

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IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2000

The Apache Software Foundation, chaired by eBuilt chief scientist Roy T. Fielding, has been recognized for achievement in software development by ACM, the world's first educational and scientific computing society.

Fielding and Brian Behlendorf, president of the foundation, will accept the Software System Award and $10,000 donation, a tribute honoring the group's pioneering work on the Apache Web server.

ACM annually awards individuals and companies for development of a software system that has an enduring commercial or intellectual impact. The Apache Web server was earmarked for the award based on its influence in the software community. The software is hosted on approximately 7.8 million public Web sites and is widely recognized as the leading Web server software in the world.

"The Apache Web server project has been a team effort, spawned by engineers that understood the advantage to the Internet community of having a robust, reliable and open implementation of the Web's primary information delivery protocol," said Fielding, chief scientist, eBuilt Inc. and chairman of the Apache Software Foundation. "I hope that its recognition through this year's ACM Software System Award will serve to encourage future open-source software initiatives."

The Apache Web server project is a collaborative effort aimed at creating a commercial grade, open-source software implementation of an HTTP (Web) server. The project began early in 1995, when a group of eight Web masters: Brian Behlendorf, Roy Fielding, Rob Hartill, David Robinson, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert S. Thau, and Andrew Wilson -- formed a virtual organization called The Apache Group. Its mission was to coordinate software development of a new Web server based on the public domain HTTP daemon developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

In 1999, The Apache Group incorporated as the Apache Software Foundation (www.apache.org), a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to supporting the Apache software projects.

The award will be accepted by Fielding and Behlendorf at the annual ACM Awards Banquet on May 6, in San Francisco.

About the ACM

Founded in 1947, ACM (www.acm.org) is the world's first educational and scientific computing society. With more than 80,000 members worldwide, a dynamic series of authoritative publications, a wide range of special interest groups (SIGs), and an outstanding array of conferences, workshops and forums, ACM is a world-class resource for the entire technology field.

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eBuilt designs and builds industrial-strength e-businesses. The company provides custom applications development and integration services to build reliable, robust and scalable Web infrastructures for new and existing e-businesses.

eBuilt is comprised of three divisions to innovate and build Internet technologies: eServices designs and builds custom Web infrastructures; ePlans provides e-business plan authoring and enhancement services; eLabs conceives, incubates and launches eBuilt's own products and services for the Internet. The company has headquarters in Irvine, Calif. For additional information, visit www.eBuilt.com.

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