<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Advantages of Caudium</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Caudium HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Overview" HREF="overview.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Comparing Caudium with Apache" HREF="apache.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Disadvantages of Caudium" HREF="disadvantages.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="sect1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Caudium HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="apache.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Chapter 2. Overview</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="disadvantages.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="sect1" ><H1 CLASS="sect1" ><A NAME="advantages">2.4. Advantages of Caudium</H1 ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > Stable multi-threaded programming (Roxen has been multi-threaded since 1994). </P ></LI ><LI ><P > Mostly written in an interpreted, object-oriented, language - Pike: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > Easy to program and extend. Just imagine if you could code extensions to the Apache core in PHP or Perl. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > No buffer overflows, segmentation faults or any other problems of that nature. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > RealNetworks is still using Roxen 1.3 as their main web platform for its stability and speed. </P ></LI ></UL > </P ></LI ><LI ><P > Low level API available for end-users. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > RXML tags. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > Lots of modules. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > Backwards compatible with Roxen 1.3. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > Different. If you are a Linux or BSD user for some time you already know the most used is not always the best. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > Caudium won't run under win32 (thus letting us more time for useful things). However some people are trying to port it using cygwin without code modification. </P ></LI ><LI ><P > Embedded PHP4 support. </P ></LI ></UL ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="apache.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="disadvantages.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Comparing Caudium with Apache</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="overview.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Disadvantages of Caudium</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >