It?s been a while that I touched Roxen Webserver for the last time. For some reason (*) I had a look at http://www.roxen.com/ and just downloaded the latest version.
I used to work a lot with Roxen, in the previous company, we even were Germany?s partner for Roxen. And since Roxen is -like MySQL- a Swedish company, their webserver is simply part of the family.
I always loved Roxen, since they introduced things to the .com market years before they got popular. For example, they had RXML (Roxen Extended Markup Language) before XML was known to the public. And they had a modular approach years before Apache got all the mod_whatever stuff.
And the underlying programming language, Pike, is one of the most underestimated software tools I ever came …
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