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Apache Jumps In Market Share

Posted by krow on from the little-graphs-with-little-lines dept.

mshiltonj writes "In case no one has noticed, the lastest Netcraft web server survey showed a marked shift in market share in just one month. Apache gained 2.63% and IIS fell 2.06%. However, the previous month showed an even larger change in Microsoft's favor, so Apache is (quickly) making up for lost ground, as discussed before. Was this turnaround due to the release of Apache 2.0? Sadly, in the last 12 months, Apache's market share has noticeably eroded, while IIS has gradually gained ground."

5 of 47 comments (clear)

  1. Sun also gained market share at the expense of IBM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sun went from 51% to 54% of the Unix server market, largely at the expense of Big Blue: IBM fell from 21% to 17% (and HP passed them, to take second place):
    Sun Makes Gains In Unix Market As IBM Slips
    http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArt icle?doc_id=IWK20020514S0004
  2. Apache 2.0 lack of modules by gruntvald · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I would think the release of Apache 2.0, which lacks php or mod_perl, the two most prominent web scripting environments, renders it to be the least useful or relevant apache release ever. Why would an IIS site ever consider switching - security has always been low on the totem pole for IIS admins, they are looking for domain integration, and other windows interfaces. Which, of course, Apache lacks. Other than the fact it now runs better on OS/2 than before, and has a BEOS port, there's little incentive to "upgrade" or switch. And those examples are only partially facetious.

  3. Gartner recommendation by booch · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's probably due to Gartner's recommendation to drop IIS due to all the security holes IIS has had recently. Or more to the point, the holes themselves have caused people to lose faith in IIS and move to Apache.

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    Software sucks. Open Source sucks less.
  4. Maybe Google and Netcraft should team up by driehuis · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hmmm... If a single web hosting company can influence the stats by that much, there is something seriously wrong with the stats.

    One approach would be to count unique IP addresses (i.e., vhosted sites would not be counted twice).

    But even better, it would be way cool if Google's linking metrics could be brought in. That way, a rough guesstimate of the amount of information served by all the web servers could be established.

    There's lies, damn lies and statistics. I remember when a sales droid walked up to me and recommended I switch to IIS because it was the dominant web server. He had brought this list of high profile IIS installations, and on the surface it looked impressive. When I confronted him with how many of those still had Apache or UNIX somewhere in the path (either as a firewall, server for static images or ads), he started mumbling incoherently.

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    Bert Driehuis -- All I asked was a friggin' rotatin' chair. Throw me a bone here, people.

  5. Question about IIS by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Do these numbers include all the people running IIS who don't realize they're running IIS, or that a web server is running on their machine at all?

    Just wondering.