Apache Software Foundation
To provide software for the public good by providing services and support for many like-minded software project communities.
At a Glance
- Enterprise Software
- Cloud Computing
- Data Analytics
- AI/ML
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AI Tools by Apache Software Foundation
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Apache Airflow
Open Source Workflow Orchestration Platform
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Latest News
The Apache Software Foundation Launches $10M Responsible AI Initiative with Initial $1.5M Donation from Anthropic
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The Apache Software Foundation Announces New Board Members for 2026-2027
Products & Services
The world's most popular web server software.
A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing.
A distributed event store and stream-processing platform.
A free and open-source, distributed, wide-column store NoSQL database.
Market Position
The world's largest open-source foundation, known for 'The Apache Way' of community-led governance and a focus on community over code.
Leadership
Founders
Brian Behlendorf
Primary developer of Apache HTTP Server; co-founder of CollabNet; Executive Director of Hyperledger.
Roy T. Fielding
Principal author of HTTP/1.1; originator of REST architectural style.
Jim Jagielski
Open source veteran; co-founder of ASF; previously at Red Hat, Salesforce, and Uber.
Executive Team
Ruth Suehle
President
Director of Community Outreach at Red Hat; longtime open source advocate.
Daniel Ruggeri
Executive Vice President
Security Architect at Mastercard; long-term ASF contributor.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
The ASF grew out of the 'Apache Group', a group of eight developers who came together in 1995 to fix and maintain the NCSA HTTPd server. The foundation was formally incorporated in 1999 to provide a legal and organizational framework for the growing number of projects.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Donations and corporate sponsorships from various tiers (Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze).
Pricing Tiers
Top-level sponsorship with maximum visibility and engagement.
High-level sponsorship supporting foundation operations.
Mid-level sponsorship for corporate supporters.
Entry-level corporate sponsorship.
Target Markets
- Enterprise Software
- Cloud Computing
- Data Analytics
- AI/ML
- Web Infrastructure
- Web serving
- Big data processing
- Stream processing
- Cloud infrastructure
- Enterprise software development
- Global 2000 companies
- NASA
- CERN
- Most major tech firms