The Apache Software Foundation has recently announced the release of a new application server based on Apache Tomcat 7.0.27. The new server is called TomEE and it is a sub-project of Apache OpenEJB.

Apache Software Foundation announces the release of Apache HTTP Server 2.4

After a long battle with HTML5, Adobe has finally given it up. The company has planned to “donate” the code for its Flash-based Flex framework along with BlazeDS to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).

We see a period from June 2009 to December 2009 when both Apache and IIS registered a dip and there was a remarkable rise in unconventional web-servers.

The new release of Apache Traffic Server can withstand 200,000 requests per second which is a 277% improvement on the earlier v2.0. It is also an Apache Top Level Project now.

The Document Foundation welcomes Oracle’s decision to release the OpenOffice.org codes and wants to work with the Apache Foundation to co-develop office applications.

Oracle has announced that they are donating OpenOffice.org to the Apache Foundation.

Apache Roller is a open source blogging software based on Java which is simliar to WordPress and provides multi user and multi blog setups.

There were a total of 255 million websites in 2010. The best webserver was Apache followed by IIS and Nginx.

Google Wave being taken over by Apache Software Foundation. Google Wave will be known as Apache Wave or Wave in a Box (WIAB).