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The Apache Project is a collaborative software development effort aimed at creating and maintaining a robust, secure, efficient, extensible and open-source implementation of an HTTP Web server. The project is managed by the U.S.-based Apache Group, a geographically distributed set of volunteers who use the Internet and Web to communicate, develop and distribute the server and its related documentation. Apache has always been a multinational project, with core developers located in the U.S., Great Britain, Canada, Germany and Italy. Although the Apache Group makes decisions as a whole, all of the actual work of the project is done by individuals. The group does not write code, design solutions, document products, or provide support to the customers, individual people do that. The group provides an environment for collaboration and an excellent trial-by-fire for ideas and code, but the creative energy needed to solve a particular problem, redesign a piece of the system, or fix a given bug is almost always contributed by individual volunteers working on their own.

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This article focuses on drawbacks of web architectures, considering the need of virtual enterprises. The article suggests that sharing information without regard to physical location through Internet, has promoted new forms of virtual business and social endeavors. A virtual enterprise is an organization unconstrained by geographic location, and a membership intersecting multiple traditional organizations. All that is needed to form a virtual enterprise is at least one common goal, a shared information space, a means of coordinating users' efforts, and people willing to share the work. The Web provides the minimum for setting up such enterprises by enabling identification of shared goals and the people who share them, by providing a standard mechanism for reading the shared information space, and by supporting coordination via e-mail archives. The infrastructure improvements described in this article are applicable to any virtual enterprise that includes creation of complex information products as one of its goals.