The Apache Software Foundation ( /əˈpætʃ.i/; ASF) is a non-profit corporation (classified as 501(c)(3) in the United States) to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U.S., in June 1999.[1][2]
The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers. The software they produce is distributed under the terms of the Apache License and is therefore free and open source software (FOSS). The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus-based development process and an open and pragmatic software license. Each project is managed by a self-selected team of technical experts who are active contributors to the project. The ASF is a meritocracy, implying that membership to the foundation is granted only to volunteers who have actively contributed to Apache projects. The ASF is considered a second generation[3] open-source organization.
Among the ASF's objectives are to provide legal protection[4] to volunteers working on Apache projects, and to prevent the Apache brand name from being used by other organizations without permission.
The ASF also holds several ApacheCon conferences each year, highlighting Apache projects, related technology, and encouraging Apache developers to gather together.
Progress Software Corporation is a global enterprise software company. The Company offers a portfolio of real-time software solutions. A key offering is the Progress Responsive Process Management (Progress RPM) suite that enables enterprises to achieve business performance. It also provides enterprise data solutions (data access and integration) and application development platforms (for application development and management, and SaaS enablement). The Company has three business units: Application Development Platforms, Enterprise Business Solutions and Enterprise Data Solutions.
The Application Development Platforms business unit includes the Progress OpenEdge product set, which enables independent software vendors (ISVs) and end user organizations to develop, deploy and manage sophisticated business applications in complex business environments. Its Progress Orbix and Progress ObjectStore products are also part of this business unit. The Enterprise Business Solutions business unit includes solutions that provide responsive integration, business transaction management and real-time business visibility, business event processing, and business process management. Products in this business unit include the Progress Apama event processing platform, the Progress Actional business transaction management platform, the Progress Savvion business process management suite, the Progress Sonic integration products and the Fuse open source infrastructure products. The Enterprise Data Solutions business unit helps drive operational responsiveness by delivering the right information, in the right form, at the right time. This business unit includes solutions and products that provide data management, data integration, replication, caching, access, and security capabilities spanning multiple data sources. Products in this business unit include Progress Data Services, Progress DataDirect Connect and Progress DataDirect Shadow.
Application Development Platforms business unit
The Progress OpenEdge platform, with more than 60,000 customers worldwide, is a platform for the development and deployment of business applications that are standards-based and service-oriented. OpenEdge-based applications can be deployed and managed over many computer platforms, as well as under a SaaS model. OpenEdge provides a unified environment consisting of development tools, application servers, application management tools, an embedded database, and the capability to connect and integrate with other applications and data sources. The primary products included in this product set are OpenEdge Studio, OpenEdge RDBMS, OpenEdge Application Server, OpenEdge DataServers, OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Replication.
Progress Orbix is an implementation of Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and is embedded in telephone switches, online brokerage systems, multimedia news delivery, airline front desk systems, rail and road traffic control, large scale banking systems, credit card clearance, subway management and CAD systems. Orbix is the enterprise CORBA product utilized by organizations. The primary products included in this product set are Orbix and Orbacus.
The Progress ObjectStore object data management system enables users to store data much faster than with a relational database management system or file-based storage system. The ObjectStore product provides transactional and high-availability features utilized in distributed enterprises. The ObjectStore product provides high-performance data management with faster time to market.
Enterprise Business Solutions business unit
The offerings associated with the Progress RPM suite are solution accelerators, which are pre-built, industry-specific, dynamic applications layered on the Progress Responsive Process Management suite developed specifically for selected industries. They allow business users to define their business processes. The Progress Control Tower is a unified, interactive business control panel that gives business users the tools needed to view what is happening within their business and the ability to assess how to improve it. This fully configurable, feature-rich, interactive framework delivers visibility into key performance indicators (KPIs) and the ability to raise alerts and act on them in real-time. Users can also create and model business processes that can then be monitored and improved dynamically.
The Progress Sonic product set helps information technology (IT) organizations achieve interoperability of systems and the flexibility to adapt these systems to business needs. Sonic products include an enterprise messaging system and one enterprise service buses (ESB). Sonic ESB provides integration of a service oriented architecture (SOA) that incorporates multiple sites or management domains. The primary products included in this product set are Sonic ESB, SonicMQ, Sonic Orchestration Server and Sonic WorkBench.
Progress Actional provides operational and business visibility, root cause analysis, policy-based security and control of services in a heterogeneous environment. The primary products included in this product set are Actional Enterprise, Actional Diagnostics and Actional Application Development.
Progress Apama offers complex event processing (CEP) capabilities and market connectivity. CEP helps businesses achieve operational responsiveness by uncovering events or event patterns in data streams that signal new opportunities, critical threats, or changing conditions or factors that impact the organization. With Apama, business events can be correlated and analyzed across multiple data streams in real-time.
Progress Savvion BusinessManager is a business process management software product with tools that provide a way for customers to drive business process innovation. Savvion provides customers the tools to create and optimize process-driven solutions and interfaces to manage daily work with real-time visibility into business processes.
Fuse products provide customers with access to professional open source integration and messaging software through a subscription model. The Company established FuseSource Corp. in October 2010 to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary for the Fuse products. FuseSource subscriptions include certified distributions of Apache Software Foundation projects, professional documentation, enterprise-level support and tools to allow management and metering. FuseSource offers Fuse ESB for enterprise integration projects, Fuse Message Broker for enabling communications between applications and service components, Fuse Services Framework for enabling Web services and Fuse Mediation Router for enabling orchestration and routing.
Enterprise Data Solutions business unit
Progress DataDirect Connect products provide data connectivity components that use industry-standard interfaces to connect applications running on various platforms to any database. With components embedded in the products of over 250 software companies and in the applications of thousands of enterprises, the DataDirect Connect product set is a data connectivity market.
The Progress DataDirect Shadow product is a multi-threaded, native runtime architecture and consolidated development environment providing a real-time foundation architecture for standards-based mainframe integration. The Shadow product supports Web services for SOA, real-time events for event-driven architecture, SQL for direct data access and transactional support and automatic presentation layer generation for extending screen-based applications to the Web. The primary products included in this product set are DataDirect Shadow, DataDirect Shadow z/Direct and DataDirect Shadow z/Services.
The Progress Data Services product set provides data integration for distributed applications, delivering real-time transactional views of shared data in the form that applications need. The Progress DataXtend Semantic Integrator product offers an approach to the data management problems often associated with SOA, employing a common semantic data model to create data transformations, enabling organizations to integrate heterogeneous data sources with no disruption to existing applications. The primary products included in this product set are DataXtend Semantic Integrator (SI), DataXtend CE and DataXtend RE.
Principal Subsidiaries: Apache Foundation; Apache Gathering Company; Apache Holdings, Inc.; Apache International, Inc.; Apache Overseas, Inc.; Nagasco, Inc.; Apache Oil Corporation; Burns Manufacturing Company; Apache Energy Limited (Australia); Apache West Australia Holdings Limited (Island of Guernsey); DEK Energy Company; Phoenix Exploration Resources, Ltd.; Apache Khalda Corporation LDC (Cayman Islands); Apache Qarun Exploration Company LDC (Cayman Islands); Apache North America, Inc.
Principal Competitors:Adams Resources & Energy, Inc.; Amerada Hess Corporation; Anadarko Petroleum Corporation; Atlantic Richfield Company; BP Amoco p.l.c.; Burlington Resources Inc.; Chesapeake Energy Corporation; Chevron Corporation; Conoco Inc.; Cross Timbers Oil Company; Devon Energy Corporation; EEX Corporation; El Paso Energy Corporation; EOG Resources, Inc.; Exxon Mobil Corporation; Forcenergy Inc.; Forest Oil Corporation; Helmerich & Payne, Inc.; HS Resources, Inc.; KCS Energy, Inc.; Kerr-McGee Corporation; Murphy Oil Corporation; Noble Affiliates, Inc.; Nuevo Energy Company; Ocean Energy, Inc.; Phillips Petroleum Company; Pioneer Natural Resources Company; Royal Dutch/Shell Group; Santos Ltd; Shell Oil Company; Texaco Inc.; TransTexas Gas Corporation; Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corporation; Union Pacific Resources Group Inc.; Unocal Corporation.
OVERALL
Beta: 1.17
Market Cap (Mil.): $1,987.14
Shares Outstanding (Mil.): 67.02
Annual Dividend: --
Yield (%): --
FINANCIALS
PRGS.O Industry Sector
P/E (TTM): 28.38 19.43 18.54
EPS (TTM): 130.77 -- --
ROI: 10.70 20.65 15.41
ROE: 10.94 22.40 16.87
Statistics:
Public Company
Incorporated: 1954
Employees: 1,281
Sales: $876.4 million (1998)
Stock Exchanges: New York Chicago
Ticker Symbol: APA
NAIC: 211111 Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction
Key Dates:
1954: Apache Oil Corporation is founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1955: The company's first well in Cushing, Oklahoma, produces seven barrels of oil per day.
1963: Cofounder Raymond Plank gains full management control of the company.
1967: Apache discovers the Recluse, Wyoming, field, which eventually yields 2,800 barrels per day.
1981: Apache Petroleum Company, the first publicly traded master limited partnership, is created as an investment vehicle.
1982: Company purchases oil and gas properties from Dow Chemical for $402 million.
1986: Apache purchases oil and gas properties from Occidental Petroleum for $440 million; company suffers first full-year loss as a result of plummeting oil prices and the enactment of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which eliminates most limited partnership tax advantages.
1987: Plank begins to change the entire focus of the company from an organizer of limited partnerships and investment vehicles to a conventional exploration and production company; company relocates its headquarters to Denver.
1991: Apache purchases oil and gas properties, which include 111 million barrels of reserves, from Amoco Production Company for $546 million.
1992: Company moves its headquarters to Houston.
1993: Company ventures outside of North America for the first time with the acquisition of Hadson Energy Resources, in Western Australia.
1994: Apache acquires 315 oil and gas fields from Texaco for $571 million, and acquires Calgary-based DEKALB Energy Company for $285 million.
1997: Apache and its partners in the Khalda Concession in Egypt enter into a 25-year, $1.2 billion contract to supply gas to the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation.
1999: Company purchases assets in the Gulf of Mexico from Shell Exploration & Production Company for $746 million, and properties in western Canada from Shell Canada Limited for $517 million.
Name Age Since Current Position
Bycoff, Barry 62 2009 Executive Chairman of the Board
Reidy, Richard 51 2009 President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Wagner, Charles 42 2010 Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President - Finance & Administration
Benson, David 51 2010 Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Conway, Gary 57 2010 Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer
Larsen, Christopher 52 2010 Executive Vice President - Global Field Operations
Freedman, James 62 2004 Senior Vice President, General Counsel
Andrews, Joseph 54 2010 Senior Vice President - Human Resources
Goodson, John 46 2010 Senior Vice President, Interim Chief Product Officer
Bates, John 40 2009 Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Head - Corporate Development
Mark, Michael 65 2009 Lead Independent Director
Kane, Charles 53 2006 Independent Director
Krall, David 50 2008 Independent Director
Gupta, Ram 48 2008 Independent Director
Address:
One Post Oak Central
2000 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 100
Houston, Texas 77056-4400
U.S.A.
The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers. The software they produce is distributed under the terms of the Apache License and is therefore free and open source software (FOSS). The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus-based development process and an open and pragmatic software license. Each project is managed by a self-selected team of technical experts who are active contributors to the project. The ASF is a meritocracy, implying that membership to the foundation is granted only to volunteers who have actively contributed to Apache projects. The ASF is considered a second generation[3] open-source organization.
Among the ASF's objectives are to provide legal protection[4] to volunteers working on Apache projects, and to prevent the Apache brand name from being used by other organizations without permission.
The ASF also holds several ApacheCon conferences each year, highlighting Apache projects, related technology, and encouraging Apache developers to gather together.
Progress Software Corporation is a global enterprise software company. The Company offers a portfolio of real-time software solutions. A key offering is the Progress Responsive Process Management (Progress RPM) suite that enables enterprises to achieve business performance. It also provides enterprise data solutions (data access and integration) and application development platforms (for application development and management, and SaaS enablement). The Company has three business units: Application Development Platforms, Enterprise Business Solutions and Enterprise Data Solutions.
The Application Development Platforms business unit includes the Progress OpenEdge product set, which enables independent software vendors (ISVs) and end user organizations to develop, deploy and manage sophisticated business applications in complex business environments. Its Progress Orbix and Progress ObjectStore products are also part of this business unit. The Enterprise Business Solutions business unit includes solutions that provide responsive integration, business transaction management and real-time business visibility, business event processing, and business process management. Products in this business unit include the Progress Apama event processing platform, the Progress Actional business transaction management platform, the Progress Savvion business process management suite, the Progress Sonic integration products and the Fuse open source infrastructure products. The Enterprise Data Solutions business unit helps drive operational responsiveness by delivering the right information, in the right form, at the right time. This business unit includes solutions and products that provide data management, data integration, replication, caching, access, and security capabilities spanning multiple data sources. Products in this business unit include Progress Data Services, Progress DataDirect Connect and Progress DataDirect Shadow.
Application Development Platforms business unit
The Progress OpenEdge platform, with more than 60,000 customers worldwide, is a platform for the development and deployment of business applications that are standards-based and service-oriented. OpenEdge-based applications can be deployed and managed over many computer platforms, as well as under a SaaS model. OpenEdge provides a unified environment consisting of development tools, application servers, application management tools, an embedded database, and the capability to connect and integrate with other applications and data sources. The primary products included in this product set are OpenEdge Studio, OpenEdge RDBMS, OpenEdge Application Server, OpenEdge DataServers, OpenEdge Management and OpenEdge Replication.
Progress Orbix is an implementation of Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and is embedded in telephone switches, online brokerage systems, multimedia news delivery, airline front desk systems, rail and road traffic control, large scale banking systems, credit card clearance, subway management and CAD systems. Orbix is the enterprise CORBA product utilized by organizations. The primary products included in this product set are Orbix and Orbacus.
The Progress ObjectStore object data management system enables users to store data much faster than with a relational database management system or file-based storage system. The ObjectStore product provides transactional and high-availability features utilized in distributed enterprises. The ObjectStore product provides high-performance data management with faster time to market.
Enterprise Business Solutions business unit
The offerings associated with the Progress RPM suite are solution accelerators, which are pre-built, industry-specific, dynamic applications layered on the Progress Responsive Process Management suite developed specifically for selected industries. They allow business users to define their business processes. The Progress Control Tower is a unified, interactive business control panel that gives business users the tools needed to view what is happening within their business and the ability to assess how to improve it. This fully configurable, feature-rich, interactive framework delivers visibility into key performance indicators (KPIs) and the ability to raise alerts and act on them in real-time. Users can also create and model business processes that can then be monitored and improved dynamically.
The Progress Sonic product set helps information technology (IT) organizations achieve interoperability of systems and the flexibility to adapt these systems to business needs. Sonic products include an enterprise messaging system and one enterprise service buses (ESB). Sonic ESB provides integration of a service oriented architecture (SOA) that incorporates multiple sites or management domains. The primary products included in this product set are Sonic ESB, SonicMQ, Sonic Orchestration Server and Sonic WorkBench.
Progress Actional provides operational and business visibility, root cause analysis, policy-based security and control of services in a heterogeneous environment. The primary products included in this product set are Actional Enterprise, Actional Diagnostics and Actional Application Development.
Progress Apama offers complex event processing (CEP) capabilities and market connectivity. CEP helps businesses achieve operational responsiveness by uncovering events or event patterns in data streams that signal new opportunities, critical threats, or changing conditions or factors that impact the organization. With Apama, business events can be correlated and analyzed across multiple data streams in real-time.
Progress Savvion BusinessManager is a business process management software product with tools that provide a way for customers to drive business process innovation. Savvion provides customers the tools to create and optimize process-driven solutions and interfaces to manage daily work with real-time visibility into business processes.
Fuse products provide customers with access to professional open source integration and messaging software through a subscription model. The Company established FuseSource Corp. in October 2010 to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary for the Fuse products. FuseSource subscriptions include certified distributions of Apache Software Foundation projects, professional documentation, enterprise-level support and tools to allow management and metering. FuseSource offers Fuse ESB for enterprise integration projects, Fuse Message Broker for enabling communications between applications and service components, Fuse Services Framework for enabling Web services and Fuse Mediation Router for enabling orchestration and routing.
Enterprise Data Solutions business unit
Progress DataDirect Connect products provide data connectivity components that use industry-standard interfaces to connect applications running on various platforms to any database. With components embedded in the products of over 250 software companies and in the applications of thousands of enterprises, the DataDirect Connect product set is a data connectivity market.
The Progress DataDirect Shadow product is a multi-threaded, native runtime architecture and consolidated development environment providing a real-time foundation architecture for standards-based mainframe integration. The Shadow product supports Web services for SOA, real-time events for event-driven architecture, SQL for direct data access and transactional support and automatic presentation layer generation for extending screen-based applications to the Web. The primary products included in this product set are DataDirect Shadow, DataDirect Shadow z/Direct and DataDirect Shadow z/Services.
The Progress Data Services product set provides data integration for distributed applications, delivering real-time transactional views of shared data in the form that applications need. The Progress DataXtend Semantic Integrator product offers an approach to the data management problems often associated with SOA, employing a common semantic data model to create data transformations, enabling organizations to integrate heterogeneous data sources with no disruption to existing applications. The primary products included in this product set are DataXtend Semantic Integrator (SI), DataXtend CE and DataXtend RE.
Principal Subsidiaries: Apache Foundation; Apache Gathering Company; Apache Holdings, Inc.; Apache International, Inc.; Apache Overseas, Inc.; Nagasco, Inc.; Apache Oil Corporation; Burns Manufacturing Company; Apache Energy Limited (Australia); Apache West Australia Holdings Limited (Island of Guernsey); DEK Energy Company; Phoenix Exploration Resources, Ltd.; Apache Khalda Corporation LDC (Cayman Islands); Apache Qarun Exploration Company LDC (Cayman Islands); Apache North America, Inc.
Principal Competitors:Adams Resources & Energy, Inc.; Amerada Hess Corporation; Anadarko Petroleum Corporation; Atlantic Richfield Company; BP Amoco p.l.c.; Burlington Resources Inc.; Chesapeake Energy Corporation; Chevron Corporation; Conoco Inc.; Cross Timbers Oil Company; Devon Energy Corporation; EEX Corporation; El Paso Energy Corporation; EOG Resources, Inc.; Exxon Mobil Corporation; Forcenergy Inc.; Forest Oil Corporation; Helmerich & Payne, Inc.; HS Resources, Inc.; KCS Energy, Inc.; Kerr-McGee Corporation; Murphy Oil Corporation; Noble Affiliates, Inc.; Nuevo Energy Company; Ocean Energy, Inc.; Phillips Petroleum Company; Pioneer Natural Resources Company; Royal Dutch/Shell Group; Santos Ltd; Shell Oil Company; Texaco Inc.; TransTexas Gas Corporation; Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corporation; Union Pacific Resources Group Inc.; Unocal Corporation.
OVERALL
Beta: 1.17
Market Cap (Mil.): $1,987.14
Shares Outstanding (Mil.): 67.02
Annual Dividend: --
Yield (%): --
FINANCIALS
PRGS.O Industry Sector
P/E (TTM): 28.38 19.43 18.54
EPS (TTM): 130.77 -- --
ROI: 10.70 20.65 15.41
ROE: 10.94 22.40 16.87
Statistics:
Public Company
Incorporated: 1954
Employees: 1,281
Sales: $876.4 million (1998)
Stock Exchanges: New York Chicago
Ticker Symbol: APA
NAIC: 211111 Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas Extraction
Key Dates:
1954: Apache Oil Corporation is founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1955: The company's first well in Cushing, Oklahoma, produces seven barrels of oil per day.
1963: Cofounder Raymond Plank gains full management control of the company.
1967: Apache discovers the Recluse, Wyoming, field, which eventually yields 2,800 barrels per day.
1981: Apache Petroleum Company, the first publicly traded master limited partnership, is created as an investment vehicle.
1982: Company purchases oil and gas properties from Dow Chemical for $402 million.
1986: Apache purchases oil and gas properties from Occidental Petroleum for $440 million; company suffers first full-year loss as a result of plummeting oil prices and the enactment of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which eliminates most limited partnership tax advantages.
1987: Plank begins to change the entire focus of the company from an organizer of limited partnerships and investment vehicles to a conventional exploration and production company; company relocates its headquarters to Denver.
1991: Apache purchases oil and gas properties, which include 111 million barrels of reserves, from Amoco Production Company for $546 million.
1992: Company moves its headquarters to Houston.
1993: Company ventures outside of North America for the first time with the acquisition of Hadson Energy Resources, in Western Australia.
1994: Apache acquires 315 oil and gas fields from Texaco for $571 million, and acquires Calgary-based DEKALB Energy Company for $285 million.
1997: Apache and its partners in the Khalda Concession in Egypt enter into a 25-year, $1.2 billion contract to supply gas to the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation.
1999: Company purchases assets in the Gulf of Mexico from Shell Exploration & Production Company for $746 million, and properties in western Canada from Shell Canada Limited for $517 million.
Name Age Since Current Position
Bycoff, Barry 62 2009 Executive Chairman of the Board
Reidy, Richard 51 2009 President, Chief Executive Officer, Director
Wagner, Charles 42 2010 Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President - Finance & Administration
Benson, David 51 2010 Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer
Conway, Gary 57 2010 Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer
Larsen, Christopher 52 2010 Executive Vice President - Global Field Operations
Freedman, James 62 2004 Senior Vice President, General Counsel
Andrews, Joseph 54 2010 Senior Vice President - Human Resources
Goodson, John 46 2010 Senior Vice President, Interim Chief Product Officer
Bates, John 40 2009 Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Head - Corporate Development
Mark, Michael 65 2009 Lead Independent Director
Kane, Charles 53 2006 Independent Director
Krall, David 50 2008 Independent Director
Gupta, Ram 48 2008 Independent Director
Address:
One Post Oak Central
2000 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 100
Houston, Texas 77056-4400
U.S.A.