It's a nice modular system with nice APIs. You can rewrite modules. Nevertheless, users at large organizations might not feel comfortable using a product for which no vendor is accountable. And because the commercial ones have always been inexpensive enough, we have never really explored free Web servers. Apache user Judd sees Lopez's point.
Nobody can come out to the site and fix a problem on four hours' notice.
HarvardNet's Miele also points out that larger companies may not notice that Apache exists because they are blinded by vendor hype. Zona's Ryder agreed. Apache is not going to supplant Netscape or Microsoft because it is facing large, well-funded competition. The other knock on Apache is that it is no t user-friendly. It lacks a GUI, although there are third-party products such as Rovis Software Inc.'s WarPaint that provide one for Apache.