Apache Jumps In Market Share

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."

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Apache is not dying

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It's official - Netcraft confirms: Apache is not dying. Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered non-Apache community when recently IDC confirmed that Apache accounts for more than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Apache has lost less market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Apache isn't collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by not failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test. You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Apache's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Apache does not face a bleak future. In fact there will be a future for Apache because Apache isn't dying . Things are not looking very bad for Apache. As many of us are already aware, Apache continues to not lose market share. Red ink doesn't flow like a river of blood. RedHat Apache isn't the most endangered of them all, having not lost 93% of its core developers. Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Apache on OpenBSD. How many users of Linux Apache are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus Linux posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Linux Apache users. NetBSD posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Linux posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of NetBSD Apache. A recent article put MS-IIS at about 80 percent of the web server market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 IIS users. This is consistent with the number of IIS Usenet posts. Due to the troubles of OpenBSD, abysmal sales and so on, Apache did not go out of business and wasn't taken over by Linux who sell another troubled OS. Now NetBSD is also not dead, its corpse not turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that Apache has not steadily declined in market share. Apache isn't very sick and its long term survival prospects aren't very dim. If Apache is to survive at all it won't be among OS hobbyist dabblers. Apache continues to not decay. Anything short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Apache is not dying. Fact: Apache is alive