Netcraft Claims Apache Now Runs 2/3rds Of The Web

Mr Bill writes "According to NetCraft the Apache web server now owns over 2/3rds of the web. The jump of 2.8% since last month is mostly due to a number of large domain parking sites switching back to Apache from IIS. 'During 2001 and the first half of 2002 several companies hosting very large numbers of hostnames including Webjump, Namezero, Homestead, register.com and Network Solutions migrated to Microsoft-IIS. Subsequently these businesses have either failed, significantly changed their business model, or reverted to their previous platform, and Microsoft-IIS share is now in line with its long term pre-summer 2001 level of around 20%.' See the full report here."

Comments

good

[grosa]

hopefully this will cut down on the number of easily infected web servers. don't want to see another run of iis worms spewing bogus access requests at my apache server.

Apache doesn't OWN anything

[Cartridge P. Grover]

Apache doesn't RUN the Web, and it certainly doesn't OWN anything. It's Web server software. That's all. It's like saying that Sony OWNS 30% of television. They just make the gizmo that shows the pictures. Apache could vanish tomorrow and the Web would be exactly the same (for those who matter: the users).

Microsoft isnt all bad,

[t_allardyce]

Maybe Microsoft should stick to the desktop? They have most of the market share of home users and most of the hardware support:

3 of the most important applications to home users are web/net, office and games and Microsoft has the biggest share with all of them: IE, MS Office, Outlook - Microsoft has it all and every major game on their platform.

Then there are the security and stability issues: most home users believe that crashing twice a day is normal and that VB script worms or NetBIOS security issues have nothing to do with Microsoft. Also they will accept that windows messaging pop-up windows with spam will appear from time to time while an admin would go ape!

DRM is also a selling point: the RIAA/MPAA etc want it and the only way it can happen is with closed source software integrated with controlled hardware: home users won't even know or care about it but bussiness users will flat out refuse to have their machines controlled by a 3rd party.

In short, Microsoft: stick to making windows with pretty colours and naming disks after the alphabet.