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mySQL

The developers of MySQL initially intended to use mSQL ("mini SQL") a light weight database engine designed to provide fast access to stored data, for a project they were working on. After some testing they discovered mSQL, designed by David J. Hughes at Bond University, Australia, was not going to fit their needs. Instead a new mySQL interface was written, borrowing many of the API ideas from mSQL in order to make porting free mSQL programs to mySQL.

The founders and main developers of mySQL have formed the company, MySQL AB. The company is dedicated to the development and distribution of MySQL. MySQL AB has currently 20+ people on its payroll and is growing rapidly.

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL began as Ingres, developed at the University of California at Berkeley between 1977-1985. This code was enhanced by Relational Technologies/Ingres Corporation, producing one of the first commercially successful relational database servers.

Postgre, an object-relational database server was developed at the University of California at Berkeley between 1986-1994 by a team led by Michael Stonebraker. The Postgre code was taken by Illustra and developed into a commercial product. 

Two Berkeley graduate students, Jolly Chen and Andrew Yu, added SQL capabilities to Postgres, and called it Postgres95(1994-1995).  They left Berkeley, but Jolly continued maintaining Postgres95, which had an active mailing list. From 1996 development was continued predominantly by Marc G. Fournier, Thomas Lockhart,  Vadim Mikheev, and Jolly Chen who changed the name form Postgres95 to PostgreSQL.

APACHE

Apache has been the most popular HTTP server since 1996.

The Apache HTTP Server Project, (aka the Apache Web Server) was founded in 1995 after the development of the most popular web server (public domain HTTP daemon developed by Rob McCool) halted. The original Apache Group were a group of webmasters who had been independently developing their own bug fixes to this web server. This group was gathered together online to share their changes (in the form of "patches".

The original Apache group were:Brian Behlendorf, Roy T. Fielding, Rob Hartill, David Robinson, Cliff Skolnick, Randy Terbush, Robert S. Thau and Andrew Wilson with contributions from: Eric Hagberg, Frank Peters and Nicolas Pioch.

Since the projects formation, literally hundreds of people have contributed to the project in the form or code, documentation and ideas. In 1999 the Apache group founded the Apache Software Foundation. The Foundation's goal is to provide organizational, legal, and financial support for the Apache open-source projects. Although Foundation membership is open to individuals by invitation, the ASF requires that all its projects remain open to new contributors via the Internet.

mod_SSL

This software was created by Ralf S. Engelschall in April 1988 and was derived from software created by Ben Laurie.

php

Development on php started in 1994 when Rasmus Lerdorf wrote what has been described as "a quick Perl hack". Development was reasonably slow until the summer of 1997 when Zeev Sraski and Andi Gutmans introduced a new parser. PHP 3.0 followed in June 1998. PHP is quickly becoming the Web application development language of choice.

Profiles of the members of the PHP community can be found at Zend.com

phpMyAdmin

The first web-based interface to MySQL using PHP - MySQL-Webadmin - was developed by Peter Kuppelwieser. Upon hearing Peter no longer intended to work on this project Tobias Ratschiller decided to develop phpMyAdmin. Although some of the concepts have been borrowed, the source-code for phpMyAdmin was completely written by Tobias. As with most open source software phpMyAdmin has had many contributors.

phpSysInfo

The handiwork of developers Matthew Snelham, Joseph Engo and Uriah Welcome.

phpDig

This excellent search engine as been developed by French developer Antoine Bajolet.

iODBC

The current version of iODBC is the product of OpenLink Software. It is based on the original iODBC created by Ke Jin.

OpenSSL

The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library. OpenSSL is based on SSLeay written by Eric A. Young and Tim J. Hudson.

OpenSSH

OpenSSH is a derivative of the original free ssh 1.2.12 release from Tatu Ylönen. Releases after this version of ssh came with restrictive licenses, halting the further development by the opensource community. Early in 1999, Björn Grönvall rediscovered this particular free release and after fixing bugs named his version OSSH. OpenBSD project members Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt, and Dug Song wanted to include SSH with SSH 2 protocol support with their December 1999 release of OpenBSD 2.6 release. As OSSH only had support for SSH 1.3 Protocol and they had a deadline to meet, the team rapidly developed OpenSSH. Following this initial release, Damien Miller, Philip Hands, and handful of others started porting OpenSSH to Linux and various other Unix operating systems. Following the release of OpenBSD 2.6 , Markus Friedl decided to pursue SSH 2 protocol support, developing after months of hard work OpenSSH 2.0. Most of the checking of Markus' changes were done by Niels Provos and Theo de Raadt. Bob Beck is to be thanked for updating OpenSSL to a newer version


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