Apache losing ground as Internet expands

[Joshua Zeidner]

  Many of these reports are loaded with marketing motives.  IIS did
gain a bit of ground with the advent of .NET, but this gain was
entirely in proportion to the amount they spent on marketing and
promotion.  Here are some informative stats:

 http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/200709/index.html

 -jmz



On 10/12/07, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net> wrote:
> After a long battle with technology, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, David Munson wrote:
> > > http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34342/118/
> > > According to the article, Apache is rapidly losing share to IIS as the
> > > Internet continues to grow at 5% per month. Any ideas why this might be?
>
> Part of it is that websites are easier to set up now than ever before thanks
> to the blogging tools they mentioned in the article.  Netcraft may need to
> tweak their definition of what a website is thanks to that.  Is
> fredbob.typepad.com (5 page views/day) equal to mfrost.typepad.com (~50,000
> page views/day)?  No, but they almost certainly both count as 1 website.
>
> > I will need to look at some stats, but it might be due to other
> > alternatives are taking away from Apache's current use and future use.
>
> I hope this is the case, but I don't think it really is.  Remember that there
> are a lot of people out there who don't understand tech yet are managing it.
>
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JOSHUA M. ZEIDNER
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