Covalent Announces New Contributions and Further Commitment to Open Source and Apache

HostReview.com
Wednesday, August 4, 2004; 12:00 AM

August 4, 2004 - (HostReview.com) - Covalent Technologies, the leading provider of open source software to the enterprise, demonstrated its ongoing commitment to the open source movement today by announcing its latest contributions to that community.

Covalent's ASP.NET module for Apache, which was previously proprietary, has been accepted by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for consideration as a new subproject of the Apache httpd Server project. The ASP.NET module is significant because it enables businesses to front ASP.NET applications with the Apache Web server.

Covalent is also in the midst of finalizing plans for open sourcing its proprietary FTP protocol module for Apache, Covalent Enterprise FTP Server. Of this latest development, Covalent lead engineer and Apache Software Foundation Secretary, Jim Jagielski states, "The plan is to offer the FTP module to the Apache Software Foundation for consideration for the ASF Incubator."

Commenting on Cisco's use of the FTP module, Mike Low, IT project manager at Cisco, observes, "Covalent's FTP Server's main advantage was the fact that it's Apache. Our engineers know and love Apache. With Covalent FTP, they wouldn't have to learn a whole knew system. It made it very easy for us to decide to go with Covalent."

Of Covalent's contributions to and continuous support of the open source community, Mark Brewer, Covalent CEO, says, "It is imperative as a benefactor of the open source community, namely the ASF, that Covalent contributes its resources and technology back to the community. As more enterprises move to open source based technology solutions, it is increasingly important to have vendors like Covalent provide the technical support and services companies require."

Covalent Technologies is the leader in products and services for Apache, the world's leading Web server, and the only source of full commercial support for the Apache Web server. Currently in use by many of the world's largest IT Operations groups, Covalent products manage many of the world's largest Web infrastructures, including many of the Fortune 1000.