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With Apache serving nearly 70% of all sites ( according to Netcraft), I suspect it would be hard for Microsoft to lock much of the web.

Pretty impressive considering that your company uses Netscape Enterprise web server on Solaris.

The IT Industry Is Shifting Away From Microsoft
We are talking about the IT industry here, servers and so on. I find that Linux is the one more popular in this field. Apache is running over 60% sites, according to netcraft. Now, most of them are probably running Linux or another UNIX. And as for your Anyone who thinks Open Sores software is coming anywhere CLOSE to Microsoft popularity needs to have his head examined. Check it out! Apache is open source and more popular than MS's ISS. But you are right, Linux is not very close in the popularity of Windows on the Desktop.

it says: The site www.net-security.org is running Apache/1.3.28 (Unix) PHP/4.3.3 on Linux.

This site is about to be brought to its knees
No. Even when the superbowl trailer was released the site didn't even slow down. I downloaded the whole trailer at 200kb/s.
They're on the AOL pipes

If Linux is so cool, why do they run their site on Microsoft Windows?

Ok, so you can write code easier, but most of the computer users can't run it? Or perhaps you use java, requiring a slow, bloated VM? Or perhaps you write it in ANSI C, but are careful to avoid use of the APIs, limiting you to a serious subset of either OSes potential.

If this is for in-house uses, or for unix/linux machines, then it would make some sense. Otherwise, it just sounds dumb.

Kind of like learning .NET and writing .NET applications, when nearly 70% of the web servers out there use Apache. Sure, in some cases it makes sense. In most instances, it's just less compatible, while a lot more expensive.

Besides, what can you do in MacOS that you can't do in linux? Photoshop, perhaps, hut what else?

Yeah, I have karma to burn.

Well it looks like they run Solaris. Maybe they stole all the Java from it to make the cereal.

Hmmm, what flavour cereal would a company running SCO make?

They claim all the best ideas come from them......

according to netcraft www.news.navy.mil runs Microsoft-IIS/5.0 under FreeBSD.

Well, defense is their business, isn't it?

Sublime Directory is LINUX FRIENDLY!! YES

god damn lameness filter.

I have lost, you would have to respected him to begin with... And you didn't you windows freak

• Three incompatible versions. There may be a lot of Linux distributions, but in the end they are all Linux, as of yet, the Main kernel has never been truley "forked" as a serperate project, just different branches and patches. Try using the FreeBSD kernel with OpenBSD, yet you can easily throw a SuSE kernel RPM onto Slackware for example.
  
• It has very little commerical support for commodity hardware. BSD has always been a geek os and will never reach the same popularity as Linux. Linux is everywhere. And don't mention OSX, that is a properietery GUI built on propeitry hardware, with a small open core that is almost useless without the Propeitery stuff.
• It is harder to install. You have to compile everything manually from a huge CVS respitory. It dosen't havge advanced Linux Packageing Systems such as APT, RPM, Portage, friendly GUI based autodectecting installers such as YaST, DrakX, Anaconda, etc.
• BSD is easy to make propreitery. You can take the code and make it propreitery. I can make Microsoft WinBSD XP and you can't do anything about it hahaha!
• It is not secure. People do not trust bsd to run it. Even OpenBSD, which claims to be "the securest OS ever made" runs on Solaris. They can make up excuses, but if you don't eat your own dog food, why should my Dog eat it?
• It has no support. Linux has IBM, RedHat, SuSE, Sun, HP, Hollywood, China and more supporting it, BSD has a few university geeks and a propreitry hardware company selling $3000 workstations using it as its propeitery core.

Apache runs 67%, whereas IIS runs 22% of all webservers, according to netcraft. That's why we hear about so many critical Apache vulnarablilities every couple of months, right?

Netcraft has SCO listed just before the SCO Icon server.

Even better with a clickable link:

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=sco.com

Windex Wipes - the Glass, Surface and Hard Disk Cleaner.

Shit. That was too good to happen, they've already been borgified.

All that I know is that according to Netcraft, the RBC website runs a mix of HPUX and AIX.

On a different note, perhaps we should all (all /. readers) visit the SCO site each day, maybe even multiple times a day, to make sure we don't miss out on some important information.

And remember, you'll want to disable your cache to do this. Oh, and if you have a browser that allows you to set it to auto refresh, that would be a good idea too. It would really be a shame to miss an important press release just because you forgot to hit Refresh often enough...

Unfortunately, SCO's unknown (linux) server is having some difficulty right now.

What (obviously) amuses me is that this frequent refreshing of their news page would be justified, given their proclivity for using press releases to disseminate important information.

Stating that the DDOS attach was most likely a Made for Wallstreet effort by SCO and pointing to some relevant information. Including the Netcraft News Graph.

Maybe do the same with lesser known Magazines. You can find a whole slew via Google News

Be polite and let them know they are being used as a pawn by SCO.

Netcraft had a posting about the supposed attack, but didn't doubt the actual situation. I've sent them the following letter:

To: webmaster@netcraft.com
Subject: News on your front page

You have a news article about SCO's network downtime posted on your front page, claiming that SCO is the target of a DDoS attack. Due to availability of services on other machines on the same netblock, like the FTP protocol on ftp.sco.com (one IP address higher than www.sco.com), I question the veracity of your news article, and I felt that I should call this into question.

groklaw.net has information posted that you might find interesting, potentially leading to a revision of your news article. The page can be found at:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200312101 63721614

Much of the information that I have read about this is available from them, as are some theories as to what is actually happening.

Thank you for your time,
TWX


Basically, if you doubt the truth of the "news" about SCO/Caldera's troubles, call it into question with those reporting it, especially those who are supposed to be some kind of authority to listen to.

They also have a site running Windows 2000.

note: I checked this several weeks ago. But netcraft seems to be down at the moment so I can't re-verify

Head over to Netcraft News and see how this server "died". If this is a DDOS attach I am Queen of Spain.

A Google Search provides 13,000 hits, with hoary Rothschild references. They claim $160,000,000,000 managed assests, but is the kind of thing really big dumb companies eat for breakfast. Like any other big dumb company Schroders has a bunch of overpaid executives but this one's tast in boats makes Jim Clark's look rational. Shiver me timbers!

Maybe you're just trolling, and I should leave this be, but hey, the obvious sometimes needs to be said.

What you've said above applies to the desktop market, although you still overstate the case a bit.

On the server-side, however, Microsoft faces many challenges. If you don't believe me, head on over to netcraft and check out IIS's marketshare. In the machine room, Microsoft has lost a massive number of customers, many of them to Linux, others to Solaris and other Unices.

Considering how much money Microsoft has put into trying to win back this category I'd say they feel challenged. The fact that they fail to take back ground is an even better indicator.

In the engineering workstation and visualization sectors, Sun still has a pretty damn good foothold. These are not so much customers that Microsoft lost as ones it never had.

Hell, don't even get me started on Tivo vs. UltimateTV.

That said, I am not really a firm believer in Linux on the desktop. It is a powerful system for servers and more advanced computing, but I think it has a few thousand too many moving parts to make it as a general purpose, mom-and-pop desktop. I don't think Sun's offering will change this. I would much prefer to see the community build an OS with the consumer in mind from day one.

Why should I have to risk screwing up my system using an unproven, unstable potentially dangerous system like FreeBSD? Why can't you just provide binaries for Linux, the industry standard for security.

unproven, unstable? FreeBSD has been around just as long as linux and you only have to look at the netcraft reports http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html to see BSD is the most stable OS around.

As for security, the BSDs have one of the best track records for being secure. You seem to post crap just to annoy the bsd crowd and you wonder why people keep modding down your posts?

The idea of using a language like Java to build webpages seems interesting, at least because Java is designed to scale well on big programs. Perl at least scales just fine; I don't know about PHP though.

It's interesting to note that Linux (probably with Apache's Tomcat) is a very popular system for JavaServer Pages (where one would have expected Sun's own Solaris platform to be popular). There is an article at Netcraft (from July) that summarizes the situation:

JSP continues to enjoy fast growth with a 94% increase in ip addresses running JSP based sites to over 44,000 ip addresses running some 105,000 active sites.

More surprising is the composition of these sites choice of operating systems. One might expect that by far the most common operating system amongst JSP based sites would be Solaris, (...). However, Solaris is only placed 3rd with 17% behind Linux with 40% and Windows with 26%.

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html

I wonder if their POP3 server runs FreeBSD like their web mail server.

The site www.sco.com is running Apache on Linux.

Hrm. So...If linux is in violation of SCO's IP, then why are they running it on their WEB SERVER?

AAAUGH! SCO is so retarded...

I think some companies increase their ability to create wealth by using Free Software.

That last one is Oxford. They run Debian. Cool.

I think some companies increase their ability to create wealth by using Free Software.

That last one is Oxford. They run Debian. Cool.

I think some companies increase their ability to create wealth by using Free Software.

That last one is Oxford. They run Debian. Cool.

I think some companies increase their ability to create wealth by using Free Software.

That last one is Oxford. They run Debian. Cool.

I think some companies increase their ability to create wealth by using Free Software.

That last one is Oxford. They run Debian. Cool.

I think some companies increase their ability to create wealth by using Free Software.

That last one is Oxford. They run Debian. Cool.

I think some companies increase their ability to create wealth by using Free Software.

That last one is Oxford. They run Debian. Cool.

I think some companies increase their ability to create wealth by using Free Software.

That last one is Oxford. They run Debian. Cool.

I think some companies increase their ability to create wealth by using Free Software.

That last one is Oxford. They run Debian. Cool.

I think some companies increase their ability to create wealth by using Free Software.

That last one is Oxford. They run Debian. Cool.

I think some companies increase their ability to create wealth by using Free Software.

That last one is Oxford. They run Debian. Cool.

I think some companies increase their ability to create wealth by using Free Software.

That last one is Oxford. They run Debian. Cool.

I think some companies increase their ability to create wealth by using Free Software.

That last one is Oxford. They run Debian. Cool.

I think some companies increase their ability to create wealth by using Free Software.

That last one is Oxford. They run Debian. Cool.

Excuse me but how is the 'Open Source Community' being attacked? This seems to me (judging by your post) to possibly be the same person. A few instances does not make WWIII on the OS community. Sure it sucks but it's not the end of the world. Now I know I'm going to get mod'ed down so no one sees this from the zealots, but fact is, if they'd assessed security beforehand this definitely would not have happened.

Shockingly to hear FSF getting hit twice diminishes any argument one would be willing to lob at MS at least MS' sites themselves have not been '0wned'. Sadly this makes me wonder if Linux is really ready for prime time on the corporate level.

Wait before you call me a Windows whore, think again. Sad really is but this could have been avoided with the proper firewall, group, users, IDS info/lists in place.

an alias for www2.microsoft.akadns.net

But that domain name points at an IP address inside Microsoft's network. But then I just noticed the funny part. The most stable web servers on Microsoft's own network are running Apache/1.3.9 on Linux

Yes.. but think again.. rsync.gentoo.org runs a round robin type load sharing system so there could be a hundred servers under that domain. You just netcrafted one or the control host.

NetCraft reports Linux and Apache (Red hat version). http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=rsync.gen too.org

Fortress of Insanity

Well....

1. They are 51% owned by the government, and

2.They run their server with Microsoft

......so I'd say yes.

The latest netrcaft survey lists the following numbers:

1. Apache: 67.41
2. Microsoft: 23.46

Unfortunately there's no OS breakdown. But anyways swissmonkey admits to working for MS. You have to expect him to quote the in house "motivational" stats.