Selected Formal Press Releases And Open Letters

This document collects a small selection of press releases, open letters, and other notable public documents produced by The Apache Software Foundation (ASF).

For general questions from the press or about the ASF in general, the Apache Press Team's homepage may be helpful. If you have other questions about press releases, ASF press or trademark policies, or other similar issues, feel free to contact us.

Open Letters

From time to time the ASF publishes open letters on matters that we believe are important to our projects and our ability to produce code for the public good in a meritocratic and community-driven way.

• Open Letter to Sun Microsystems - An open letter discussing licensing restrictions in the Java SE JCK which are contrary to the terms of the JSPA.

• Celebrating a Decade of Open Source Leadership

• A letter from the Chairman of the ASF commemorating the 10th anniversary of the founding of the ASF.

Recent Press Releases

This is a selected list of recent or otherwise noteworthy press releases that the ASF has issued. Note that there are many more releases about the ASF's various projects and ApacheCon as well.

• Governor Schwarzenegger and Mayor Dellums honor the Apache Software Foundation

• Press Conference for the Tenth Anniversary of The Apache Software Foundation (March 2009)

• The Apache Software Foundation Names Qpid a Top-Level Project (March 2009)

• Apache Tuscany enables service oriented architecture solutions to more easily respond to new business requirements. (October 2008)

• The Apache Software Foundation's "Apache Way" continues to gain momentum, recognition and influence on the future of open source technologies (June 2008)

• THE APACHE GROUP INCORPORATES TO BECOME THE APACHE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION (June 1999) - original press release celebrating the ASF's founding.