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Apache down, IIS up
Doctor Memory writes "Netcraft's June 2006 web server survey is out, and it shows IIS taking a dramatic upturn, at the expense of Apache. One of the biggest reasons cited is domain registrar Go Daddy switching to IIS for the domains it "parks". The report does go on to note that IIS is also making solid gains in active sites (including some large blog hosts), and further notes that it appears that large hosting companies are dropping Linux." Statistics are fun to play with, of course, but note that Apache's market share is approximately 30% higher than IIS's at the moment.
Same shit, different day. Wasn't it yesterday that Didiot came out with an anti-Linux statistical analysis?
(Yes, it was).
Let's please get with the "right tool for the right job" program, and start spending our money on innovation and development. I'm just as much of a zealot for open source, GNU/Linux as the next guy, but I'd much rather see our time and energy go into making new technologies.
Read the only personal Runyon page out there.
Really, seriously, why does this matter? And why is it slashdotted? Should we all convert our servers to IIS because a few big companies did? Post some real news already.
This is classic. IIS is gaining market share over Apache. It's all Bush's fault!
> businesses shouldn't be quick to oblige
Ever run a business?
You don't have enough money. You don't have enough people. You don't have enough work. And every last thing you have to do in your own house to run your own stuff is taking your people away from the work that pays the bills.
I tried to do the open source thing. I damn near went bankrupt. Then I partnered with Microsoft, and my income went from negative to just short of six figures almost overnight.
The weird thing is that I made every dime of that money working with open source products. But until I was a Microsoft partner, nobody would talk to me. Then I went back to the same companies that turned me down, and the word "Microsoft" somehow meant I was more qualified to work on their LAMP stack applications. Sure, that's retarded. We all know that. But that's the way it happened.
So tell me again how I should have stuck it out and gone down with the company. I go around talking principles and freedom, I go broke. I stick the word "Microsoft" on my marketing materials, and I make money. Go ahead. Argue with that. Tell me how I should have been happy to lose my house, my car, every dime of my savings, and all the other crap I would have lost riding the open source handbasket.
Microsoft saved my ass. Open source just kicked it. Screw you people, I know who butters my bread.
Microsoft cheerleader, blue flag waving, you got a problem with that?
Mod this lying troll down. The blog says nothing about being a microsoft employee.