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[News] Microsoft Manipulates Netscraft Figures

Where, oh where have all the Apache servers gone?

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| At first glance, Netcraft's June 2006 Web server survey looks like bad
| news for Apache. And, since the vast majority of all instances of Apache
| run on Linux, bad news for Linux in one of its strongholds: Internet
| servers. A closer look, though, reveals a different story.
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                http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3407542187.html

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| 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

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