GoAhead Software has announced a free, downloadable WebServer for embedded Linux applications.

As Web-based appliances and devices proliferate, the challenge becomes their effective networking and management. Embedded web servers can enable remote access and control of devices via a browser. With GoAhead Software's open-source philosophy and its vision of “a server in every device,” the company offers a free, downloadable GoAhead WebServer designed specifically for embedded systems.

Most Web servers are not designed to be embedded and most commercial embedded Web servers use proprietary schemes to render dynamic data. The growing Internet appliance industry needs a powerful, standards-compliant, embedded Web server based on open source philosophies like Linux. GoAhead says it's WebServer software meets all of these requirements. According to the company, the GoAhead WebServer is a sleek and fast, small-footprint, open-source, standards-based embedded Web server, with no proprietary lock-ins. The WebServer is intended to allow you to connect to any remote device, apply configuration updates, view statistics of your device, perform management functions, and more.

GoAhead's goal in releasing the WebServer source code is to initiate and foster an environment for development of the most widely-used embedded Web server on the planet. The GoAhead WebServer development community has already contributed greatly to the evolution of the source code. Developers from all over the world have downloaded, evaluated, and made improvements that have made GoAhead WebServer one of the top embedded Web servers on the market.

Support is provided through a collaborative Usenet newsgroup by the community of GoAhead WebServer developers, with active participation of GoAhead client services. For more information, or to download the GoAhead WebServer software, visit GoAhead's web site: http://www.goahead.com.

 
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