[en] Nginx is an eventdriven Web server published in 2004 and designed for hightraffic websites. Despite the dominant position of Apache HTTP reaching nearly 70% market share, Nginx succeeded in gaining nearly 15% market shares. We studied the success factors of the Nginx Web server and compared the two main open source competitors: the reference software (Apache HTTP) and the second eventdriven outsider (Lighttpd). In particular we highlight the importances of the reliability of Nginx compared to Lighttpd and of the complementary with Apache HTTP leading Web server.
Disciplines :
General management, entrepreneurship & organizational theory Library & information sciences
Author, co-author :
Viseur, Robert ; Université de Mons > Faculté Polytechnique > Management de l'Innovation Technologique
Language :
English
Title :
Success Factors of an Open Source Outsider: the Case of Nginx Web Server
Publication date :
21 June 2016
Event name :
International Conference CPMMI (Contemporary Problems Of Mathematics, Mechanics And Informatics)
Event place :
Novi Pazar, Serbia
Event date :
2016
Research unit :
F113 - Management de l'Innovation Technologique
Research institute :
R300 - Institut de Recherche en Technologies de l'Information et Sciences de l'Informatique
