There are a few tenants to the Nexista philosophy:
Freedom through Open Standards
The use of SQL, XSL, and XML are what nexista is all about. Let Web Servers Serve the Web
There are many awesome webservers (Apache, NGINX, and Lighttpd for example). Nexista should not try to reproduce the functionality that they perform so well. Integration is Important
Though the unix philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well can make integration very difficult.Flexibility
XML. Nuff said.