Open Source Technologies are Paving New Channel Inroads
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| In general, resistance among customers to open source solutions is
| dropping rapidly due to the ongoing success of Linux and Apache,
| which have proven that an open-source approach to core
| infrastructure software can work.
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http://www.channelinsider.com/article/Open+Source+Technologies+are+Paving+New+Channel+Inroads/204656_1.aspx
http://tinyurl.com/yqa3xc
Open Source Parking Spoofing Headers to Benefit Apache
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| Open Source Parking was formed last year by Linux evangelist Bruce
| Perens to counter a 5 percent market share gain by Microsoft in the
| April 2006 survey, when domain registrar Go Daddy shifted 4.5 million
| parked domains from Linux to Windows Server 2003. The project's goals
| are to increase the market share for open source software and generate
| revenue from advertising on the parked domains to fund political
| efforts on behalf of the open source community. While parked domains
| can be challenging to track accurately, there is no evidence that the
| effort has made any impact on web server market share.
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| Perens downplayed the significance of Microsoft's market share gains
| because they relied upon parked domains. "This is an 'appearance'
| change only, because the sites involved have no content," he wrote
| in announcing the service. "But managers believe figures like those
| in the Netcraft report, and act on them."
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http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2007/04/04/open_source_parking_spoofing_headers_to_benefit_apache.html
Related:
Apache with over 73% real market share.
December 2006 Security Space Survey Results
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| Security Space estimates that nearly 90 percent of all Web sites
| are "orphans" to which no other sites link. Its Web server survey
| therefore counts only those servers referenced on other sites.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/stats/article.php/3652421
Open Source Fights Back
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| Question: The OpenSourceParking.com announcement cites a Netcraft
| report, which found that GoDaddy.com's migration from Linux to Windows
| caused Apache to lose server share. Was this event the sole impetus
| for OpenSourceParking.com?
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| Perens: Not the first. 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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