Brian Behlendorf

Brian Behlendorf ( born March 30, 1973) is one of the original developers of the Apache web server, the web server most commonly used on the Internet. Furthermore, he was a founding member of the Apache Group, which later became the Apache Software Foundation. Behlendorf served for three years president of the organization and is still a board member.

Biography

Behlendorf grew up in Southern California in the vicinity of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA and was interested in the development of the Internet in its early stage, while he was studying at Berkeley in the early 1990s. In 1993, Behlendorf along with Jonathan Nelson, the company Organic Inc., which dealt first with the creation of commercial websites. During 1994 they developed the first for-profit web presence for the company HotWired, they noticed that one with the then most commonly used web server NCSA httpd ( which was developed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign ) a user login, as it was requested by the client, could not be realized. For this reason, patched Behlendorf the Web server for HotWired project, that is, he changed the source code.

But Behlendorf was not the only one who concerned himself at this time with the patching of the NCSA source code, and so he taught along with Cliff Skolnick a mailing list in order to coordinate the work of different programmers. End of February 1995, the Apache Group was founded by eight of the original developers. While they worked loose, they wrote all the source code new, while the first Apache HTTP server came out. 1999 from the Apache Group, the Apache Software Foundation.

Behlendorf is now CTO of CollabNet company, which he and O'Reilly & Associates (now O'Reilly Media ) founded in 1999. He is also a board member of the Mozilla Foundation.