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Re: Can we trust Netcraft any more?

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On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:40:42 -0500,
 Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:26:50 GMT, Linonut wrote:
>
>> Ever wonder why OK keeps posting the Netcraft survey?
>
> You never could trust Netcraft, because it's numbers don't say what people
> keep insisting they do.
>
> ie. they don't equal market share, yet Linux advocates (probably even
> yourself) have long trumpeted these numbers as gospel.  Suddenly, when you
> don't like them, despite the fact the methodology hasn't changed, then they
> can't be trusted.
>
> Hardy har har.  The chicken has come home to roost.
>
>> Other explanations include the domain parking crap, IIS server
>> riding on the popularity of Sharepoint and BusinessServices, a huge
>> upswing of Visual Studio developers shifting from desktop to web apps
>> (ASP.net), ...
>
> Domain parking is completely negated by Netcraft's "active sites"
> benchmark, which still show IIS growing and apache shrinking.


Make up your mind, are netcraft's numbers valid or not? 

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