Netcraft keeps this data and it is interesting to note that Microsoft has moved up a shade. Sun and the rest of the players now appear to be completely out of the picture.
Apache in Blue, MSFT in red. Click to enlarge.
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Internet Web Server business? We have certainly never booted into apache.
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That was a great comment. Are you sure you’re not Ted Stevens evil twin?
What I (and Howard) wanna know is why doesn’t this translate to DESKTOP market share?
but you can run Apache on windows too!
And windows Server??
Love it how MS toughts they are #1, and it isnt there software.
Apache is still going strong. 🙂
4 – note it doesn’t say Windows, but Microsoft
So Apache = Apache Web Server
and Microsoft = Microsoft Web Server
How much is due to Go Daddy and others moving to IIS to park domains?
Micorsoft payed Go Daddy a pile of money to use IIS for domain parking.
Yes, Apache runs just fine on Win2k and Win XP Pro. Maybe NT4 also.
IIS (the Microsoft Web server) is used for Intranets (inside the company firewall), but has too many security holes in it to run on the Internet, the major one being that it runs ActiveX controls.
What I (and Howard) wanna know is why doesn’t this translate to DESKTOP market share?
1. Because there’s no marketing department pushing manufacturers to install Linux on new PC’s.
2. Because server admins (as dumb as some of them are, present company excepted OF COURSE!) tend to have at least the minimum skillset to install and maintain linux, while 95% of home users do not.
The Netcraft survey has never been entirely accurate and is actually less accurate these days since a relatively small percentage of domains are actually live sites (they’re parked). It also doesn’t take into account volume of traffic either. If the survey was adjusted to show as a percentage of Net traffic how many requests landed on whichever server type, that would make more sense.
#9, stop perpetuating this myth. IIS has had only two or so breaches since it came out with win serv 2k3 as opposed to apache wich had had many more. IIS is more secure than apache is. Period!
And how long have BOTH been around???
Apache, I think has been around at LEAST 5 years..