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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
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%.
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| 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.
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| 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
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.
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| 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
"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
Related:
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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