Why was the Sambar Server created?
The Sambar Server was created to test a three-tier communication infrastructure modeled after the Sybase Open Client/Open Server. Soon thereafter, the idea of leveraging the infrastructure for dynamic delivery of content on the WWW resulted in the addition of an HTTP protocol stack, and efforts in supporting the notion of presistent users via HTTP. Originally developed on a Sun Workstation (UNIX), it was ported to the PC (Windows 32) and licensed for commercial purposes. After completely rewritting the base code at the end of 1996, and adding many new features, version 3.0 began shipping in February 1997. Version 4.0 began shipping in mid-May 1997.
The Sambar Server was created to test a three-tier communication infrastructure modeled after the Sybase Open Client/Open Server. Soon thereafter, the idea of leveraging the infrastructure for dynamic delivery of content on the WWW resulted in the addition of an HTTP protocol stack, and efforts in supporting the notion of presistent users via HTTP. Originally developed on a Sun Workstation (UNIX), it was ported to the PC (Windows 32) and licensed for commercial purposes. After completely rewriting the base code at the end of 1996, and adding many new features, version 3.0 began shipping in February 1997. Version 4.0 began shipping in mid-May 1997. A Linux port was performed (and integrated into the core codebase) during the 4.4 release, but not subsequently released due to resource constraints. Version 5.0 began shipping in January 2001.
