Having a Web server in every device, is a prerequisite for device development

GoAhead is committed to improving user experiences through the development and distribution of 'smart' devices. In our view, smart starts with Web-enabled and builds from there. Our goal in releasing GoAhead WebServer under an “open source license” and “non branded License” is to help put a Web server in every device, harness the pool of talented developers, and enhance the reliability of GoAhead WebServer by leveraging the test and debugging efforts of thousands of companies.

To foster this initiative, we are providing access to our GoAhead WebServer source code through two license models. The “open source license” is provided at no charge. For customers who are not able to comply with the GoAhead promotional and license-back requirements of the “open source license”, we also offer a fee-based license referred to as the “non-branded license”e. Our goal in releasing the GoAhead WebServer source code is to initiate and foster an environment enabling the development of the most widely used embedded Web server on the planet.

The GoAhead WebServer development community has contributed greatly to the evolution of the source code of this embedded Web server. Developers from all over the world have downloaded, evaluated, and made improvements that have made GoAhead WebServer one of the top embedded Web servers on the market.

Based on open standards, industry standards, GoAhead WebServer has no proprietary lock-ins. Many other embedded Web servers define proprietary tags to permit dynamic data to be inserted into Web pages. These usually require proprietary tools to create the linkage between the pages and the C code which supplies the data. The GoAhead WebServer offers an open standards solution for creating dynamic Web content with very efficient packaging. The memory footprint of the web server is approximately 60k.