On its own, the Apache server is a bare bones HTTP server engine. But native capabilities such as server side includes (SSI), add-on's such as PHP or component systems such as Zope turn Apache into a publishing environment. We'll look at Salon.com's decision to build a full-featured publishing environment that provides workflow, styling, and scalability by leveraging mod_perl, XML, and Java technologies. The architecture of Salon.com's content management, distribution and delivery systems is the product of its engineers years of experience with ZDNet, C/Net, and CNN's web publishing properties. We'll focus on such systems, their design and their implementation. The broad topics we'll cover:

• Requirements for Managing Content
• Requirements for Content Delivery
• Applicable technologies
• Apache Options
• Salon.com's current solution: Best of breed technologies
• The Publishing Technology Roadmap

Ian Kallen
Manager of systems and software, Salon.com