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This is a good article but I'm wondering what is the relationship between this website/company and varnish-cache.org, since in the article they make claims of releasing Varnish Cache, and the article wasn't written by Poul-Henning Kamp.

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Varnish hasn't been a solo project for many years. Also PHK's version is now called Vinyl Cache while the corporate fork is called Varnish.

The article says "when we launched Varnish Cache back in 2006". Who is we? My memory was that around that time PHK released it to the world and was the sole developer at the time.

I was wondering about this too. He apparently worked at the company for a while? Did he found it?

Yes. When Varnish Cache launched, in 2006, I worked in a rather small OSS consultancy, which did the Linux port of Varnish Cache and provided maintenance and funding for the project.

You say, "Yes. When Varnish Cache launched, in 2006, I worked in a rather small OSS consultancy, which did the Linux port of Varnish Cache and provided maintenance and funding for the project."

But eventually phk left, and you came into conflict with him over the name, which was resolved by him choosing a different name for his version of Varnish?

Not really.

We've been funding phks work on Varnish and Vinyl cache for 20 years. Do you think phk can write, maintain and release something on his own? Vinyl Cache cannot be a one-man-show, be real.

I see. Thank you for explaining!

(I do, in fact, think phk can write, maintain, and release something on his own.)

He knows a lot of things and is amongst the best software developers I've worked with, but on a project like this you need a lot more breath than any single developer can bring.

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