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[News] Apache is King of the Servers

Apache is the big chief in the world of web servers

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| What's it for?
| 
| Serving web content and files sharing. Apache is an essential part
| of the Lamp (Linux, Apache, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Perl/PHP/Python)
| development stack.
| 
| [...]
| 
| What systems does it run on?
| 
| Originally developed with Unix/Linux in mind, support for Windows
| and other operating systems was improved with Apache 2 in 2002 now
| around 30 are supported, including mainframe operating systems.A
| pache is the default web server in Mac OS X and Novell Netware 6.5. 
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/01/11/221090/apache-is-the-big-chief-in-the-world-of-web-servers.htm


Related:

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

Apache has market share of 73.4% (91.74% in Germany).


Meanwhile, Microsoft messes about with statstics, as usual.

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?
|
| 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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