__/ [ BearItAll ] on Wednesday 19 July 2006 14:07 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Linux has been very successful in the server marketplace. In fact, Linux
>> | is already more popular as a web server than is Windows. Sixty-one
>> | percent of all web servers run Linux, according to Netcraft's June 2006
>> | Web server survey at
>> | news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/06/04/june_2006_web_server_survey.html.
>> |
>
> It doesn't say that 61% of web servers are Linux. It says 61% of hosts are
> using Apache web server. That can be UNIX/Linux or NT.
>
> Remember that web hosts were once UNIX up in the 9%% area.
I will assume that it was 95%...? However, there is evidence to suggest that
a transition from UNIX to Linux is a more popular route and a more natural
one, too.
> So really the survey gives MS hosts a much larger share than you might have
> expected, with the more recent upturn in MS's hosts arriving not long after
> MS released it's free tools for .net2 development.
Have a look at the way that Apache gained hosts last month. There was a
deceptive month prior to that (MS played dirty).
July 2006 Web Server Survey (Very Positive for Linux)
,----[ Quote ]
| "It was a good month for the Apache web server, which gains 3.2 million
| hostnames..."
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http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/06/28/july_2006_web_server_survey.html
The month which preceded that showed something else owing to the following
situation.
,----[ Older news ]
| It's part of a continuing behavior pattern by
| Microsoft that I think it's fair to call "dirty fighting." GoDaddy was
| using Apache (I assume on Linux) because it was a great technical
| solution. They didn't switch to IIS on Windows Server 2003 for any
| technical reason. The switch was accompanied by a press release by
| GoDaddy, containing Microsoft promotional language. Now, I've changed
| many servers from one thing to another, but I've never made a press
| release about it. GoDaddy wouldn't be doing that unless Microsoft had
| offered them something valuable in return. There has been talk in the
| domain business that Microsoft has been offering the large domain
| registries a wad of cash to switch their parked sites. There is no
| other reason to do this than to influence the Netcraft figures.
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=15108
> Our share then is going down, which I for one expected once I had seen
> .net2 and the tools they give you free to develope for it. It is simply too
> easy for school/college developers to pick up and start producing web sites
> very quickly.
I suppose you are referring to what CNET described yesterday:
http://news.com.com/2110-1012_3-6095380.html?part=rss&tag=6095380&subj=news
> I wonder if that first big jump for MS was when IIS started to be properly
> useable on home machines.
>
> So you see there are people who want to use an MS platform if they can, as
> the host utility comes good people will switch to MS. Which means that we
> have to expect that the Linux/Windows wars are far from over and the winner
> of the battle is not yet decided. If the expected change in MS Office is
> also an aid to web based applications, and the white paper makes it very
> plain that is the route MS are taking with this or future releases, then
> their numbers are very likely to increase, because it will no doubt
> integrate with their .net2 tools as well.
The seam between Vista and the Net is tightened, but it's also among the
concerns that EU bears in mind for future antitrust considerations. This
includes things such as Webmail (Google grows at enormous rates in that
area) and Search, where Google has considerable and yet extending lead.
Best wishes,
Roy
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