Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Web snooping with Netcraft - Microsoft Hosts
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> | Apparently in both cases, Microsoft offered to the customer "twice the
> | quantity of servers (that normally would be needed in a RedHat/Apache
> | implementation), and twice as many systems admins with full redundant
> | service, "all at Microsoft's expense". The aim was to publicly
> | show "reliability, scalability" of Microsoft technology as compared to the
> | more established and respected competition.
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> http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-04-11-001-35-OS-NT-0004
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> I used track Netcraft religiously, until ... ( Apr 11, 2009, 02:21:52 )
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> | the GoDaddy, Google and other Netcraft debacles in the Spring of 2005 and
> | later revealed that Netcraft does everything it can to twist the data in such
> | a way that it increases Microsoft's webserver percentages and decreases
> | FOSS's. With that twisting they have been able to make their "reporting"
> | APPEAR that Apache's server share has dropped from over 70% to 46%, while
> | Microsoft's has risen from under 20% to nearly 30%.
> |
> | Deep down in their web site Netcraft concedes that in current "heavily used"
> | websites Apache runs 66% while Microsoft runs only 18%. (See below!) In other
> | words, for example, Netcraft counts the HUGE number of idle Microsoft servers
> | that GoDaddy PARKS, while NOT counting ALL the web servers in Google's ACTIVE
> | Linux server farm. Their logic for this hypocrisy is mind numbing. They use
> | other similar "metrics" to extend the same distortions.
> |
> | By comparison, another site which tracks web server market share is
> | SecuritySpace:
> | http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/200903/ index.html
> | which shows Apache's current share at 71% and Microsoft's is at 17%. From a
> | dropdown combobox on the same page you can query various domains and
> | countries to see how FOSS and MS compare in percentages. For example, France
> | is 89% FOSS and 8% MS.
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> http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-04-11-001-35-OS-NT-0000
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> I used track Netcraft religiously, until ...
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> | I had the same experience as you, GreyGeek. When I found out that Netcraft
> | lost its objectivity (even its appearance of objectivity), and started
> | rigging the numbers in late 2005 to make Microsoft's net presence look better
> | than it actually was, I lost all respect for Netcraft's web survey.
> |
> | Respect for Netcraft is so low now that it might as well just start reporting
> | IIS as having 100% market share across the board. It wouldn't change anyone's
> | opinion of Netcraft, so no harm could come from it. The only difference is
> | that Netcraft could stop pretending it isn't an industry joke.
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> http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-04-11-001-35-OS-NT-0005
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> "Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox’s store before I did and took
> the TV doesn’t mean I can’t go in later and steal the stereo."
>
> --Bill Gates, Microsoft
>
These are very interesting facts... better save a copy for future
reference before they "somehow" disappear (comments).
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Linux - You must break it | Windows - It breaks itself
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