Ever wonder why OK keeps posting the Netcraft survey?
Here's one that shows the opposite:
http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/200707/index.html
Market Share Change (Total servers: 24,859,287)
Server1 July July June June Change
Count % Count %
Apache 18,349,682 73.81% 18,166,994 73.52% +0.29%
Microsoft 4,805,841 19.33% 4,851,577 19.63% -0.30%
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000271
Here is the Netcraft survey and here is a Security Space survey.
While Netcraft says Apache represents 51% market share and rapidly
shrinking, Security Space puts Apache at 74% and growing! Netcraft
says Microsoft IIS has 34% market share and is rapidly growing,
Security Space pegs Microsoft IIS at 20% market share, as it
continues to shrink.
Why the vast discrepancy? Does one or the other survey use a
misleading polling technique (sites vs. domains vs. servers)? And
which survey is misleading? Is Netcraft guilty of voodoo economics
(perhaps we should start calling it Witchcraft)? Or is Security Space
getting it wrong? I believe common sense favors Security Space, but
what do you think?
Some comments at that link (including our own Roy S.) Here's one that
might be telling:
This came up at slashdot about a week ago. Someone went digging and
found that China has about 60% IIS (mostly pirated). While the number
at GoDaddy is large, China is about 10 times that many. They also
found that North America and EU were still in 70% range for Apache.
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), ...
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Tux rox!
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