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Netcraft Says IIS Gaining on Apache

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the trolls-rejoice-in-netcraft-story dept.

benjymouse quotes this month's netcraft survey "In the August 2007 survey we received responses from 127,961,479 sites, an increase of 2.3 million sites from last month. Microsoft continues to increase its web server market share, adding 2.6 million sites this month as Apache loses 991K hostnames. As a result, Windows improves its market share by 1.4% to 34.2%, while Apache slips by 1.7% to 48.4%. Microsoft's recent gains raise the prospect that Windows may soon challenge Apache's leadership position."

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  1. Sooo.... by yoprst · · Score: 2, Funny

    Netcraft confirms it?

  2. Re:The important question is by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

    BSD is still dead?


    No. Thanks to a few necromancers, BSD is now officially undead. Netcraft confirms it!

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  3. Re:GoDaddy and the like? by OriginalArlen · · Score: 4, Funny
    Not likely - if you look at the Netcraft charts, you can see the decline's been steady and consistent for several months (6-9-12 or so IIRC. No, I haven't read the article yet because I was only looking at the Netcraft survey & getting depressed a couple of months back, and I know that I'll be mightily cheered up by the comments in a few hours' time -- the lame humour, I-for-one, accusations of M$-funded FUD, assertions that it's because Windows shops are all full of fules and madmen... and so on. That really gives me hope that Free software will triumph in the end.

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  4. Re:From the person above by cerberusss · · Score: 3, Funny

    There is no integrated mod_rewrite solution on IIS.
    On the one hand, mod_rewrite has made many of my customers happy. On the other hand, mod_rewrite has caused my hair to fall out, has costed two keyboards (flung to the wall), and countless spills of good coffee.

    In short, I've come to regard it as the primary sign of the coming of the antichrist.
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  5. Re:What?! by certain+death · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah...I scanned 6 default installs of Windows 2003 server on Friday...

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  6. Re:What?! by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 2, Funny

    The pseudo-XML in httpd.conf makes me long for something nice and simple like sendmail.mc...
    Wimp. Real sysadmins work with sendmail.cf.
  7. Re:From the person above by man_of_mr_e · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know it's all trendy to hate Microsoft and all, but honestly, have you looked at IIS lately? Especially IIS7?

    IIS has had less than half a dozen security flaws *IN 4 YEARS*, compared to Apache which has had tons. .NET has had about the same, compared to PHP which has also (and continues to have) tons of security flaws. Hell, one of the biggest names in PHP quit recently in protest over the poor security of PHP.

    The fact of the matter is, IIS and .NET are very attractive, powerful, secure, and easy to use technologies. Whatever microsofts faults on the desktop, they are not present in .NET and IIS.

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  8. Re:What?! by moosesocks · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can say that again. The pseudo-XML in httpd.conf makes me long for something nice and simple like sendmail.mc...


    Be careful of using technology-related sarcasm on slashdot. Somebody's going to read that, mod it as 'Insightful', and mean it.
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  9. HELP! My LAMP is now LLPR! by Jeff+Carr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Help me! Seriously, I need a new technology.

    I like LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) as much as the next want-to-be web developer out there.

    Started with FAMP (FreeBSD), to LAMP, to LAPP (PostgreSQL)...

    But now I'm ridiculously on LLPR! (Linux, Lighttpd, PostgreSQL, Ruby)

    Can someone please develop something with a vowel?!?

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  10. Re:Close your eyes and plug your ears. by Anne+Thwacks · · Score: 4, Funny
    PHP is widely acknowledged to suck,

    More than that, all /. readers know full well, that PHP is actually very good at sucking while .net is pathetic, even at sucking.

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  11. Subsection A, Paragraph B.... by encoderer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Subsection A, Paragraph B clearly states that boat analogies must be used in lieu of car analogies on all Microsoft vs. OSS stories. We just don't have the technology to construct a metaphorical car powerful enough to overcome the figurative bullshit.