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Netcraft Says IIS Gaining on Apache
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."
So if the Apache team makes a GUI option for configurations then it would probably start gaining the lost market share back?
Also the only other reason I can imagine a windows machine to be running IIS in comparison to Linux with Apache is if you're a smaller company with only a few windows servers and cant really afford extra dedicated server hardware.
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+2 Troll is Slashdot's way of saying groupthink is confused
Once my Laser printer cancer is found I'm going to sue the pants off of Microsoft. Their web servers fuel the pages that get printed on the HP Laser printer perhaps only 8 feet from my desk, and the more web sites served by IIS, the more Microsoft sponsored laser printing particles end up inside me. I mean, it's bad enough to be killed by legitimately printed documentation for a project, but to be killed by articles from Vanity Fair is something all together different.
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low quality server administrators dont choose to work on the command line, so IIS is a perfect half-ass fit for their needs. there is no reason not to use apache, and combine this with virtualized networks and windows runs too much overhead to be useful.
i support the right to offend.
Not a very convincing argument.
You are mistakenly thinking I am trying to convince you what to use. I don't care what you use. I was explaining what was easier to ME.
First, text editors have this really nifty feature called "search". Takes you right to the string that you request.
And if I'm not sure what the key work is I'm supposed to be searching for because I haven't touched the config file in a few months? The tabbed headings make it easier to find things for me in that case.
Second, what if I want to see/verify all settings? What if I want to make sure that Server B is configured exactly the same as Server A? Much easier to scroll through (or diff) a config file than to click on every single frigging tab and subdialog, remembering which ones I have looked at and what they were set to.
That's very true, and if for some reason I wanted to compare settings of several of my web servers that might be handy. I just never seem to need to do that.
Yes, to each his own, but anyone who has done anything beyond setting up a single web server once, curses the MS GUI configuration interfaces.
Patently and untrue and a troll. I've set up a good number of both Windows/Linux/BSD/MacOS web servers and I don't curse the MS GUI.
I think you meant:
// no
or
/* no */
Of course, I have to laugh along with you because IIS topping LAMP is simply absurd. I've seen a few moves in this direction, but they are always some kind of top-down brain death that lessens reliability and features. In any competitive environment, where people are competent, IIS does not stand a chance.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
I am always skeptical of the malware ridden platform massive cost angle.
MS software has saved companies billions of dollars. I don't think any sane person would argue otherwise.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
I just can't understand how people could possibly think config files are easier than GUI setup. With a well done GUI, you
open it up,
go to the right section, and
select options from a list or check boxes.
With a CLI you :
open a terminal,
google for where the config file is,
cd to it,
google again when you realize you where looking at info for the wrong version, platform, etc.,
open the file,
google for where the option is located,
find it,
google a list of the options,
type in the one you want,
realize you don't have permissions for the file,
reopen it with sudo,
do edits over again,
restart the program you are configuring,
it doesn't really restart,
restart machine,
program didn't start,
fix typo,
restart,
the changes you made won't work together,
google alternative,
restart,
you needed to add something else to make changes work,
add it,
restart,
some weird error,
download GUI configuration utility
Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. And you don't want to get any on you.
IIS already has a pretty dramatic marketshare lead when it comes to the Fortune 1000.
This is the M$ zenith. The seeds M$ sewed back in the 80s and 90s are bearing fruit. All of those "free" copies of Windoze and Office bought the loyalty of millions of clueless MBA corporate wanna-be types. Their unmitigated ignorance and greed is also apparent in other mismanagement. It is only in big dumb companies that technical competence can be so thouroughly overridden by idealog management. Such irrational practices, can turn on a dime. Reality will catch up with these people, despite the size of their companies and it's already happening.
Working for most of the Fortune 1000 is miserable right now - they have their employees by the balls and they know it. Much of their M$ heavy stock funded retirement plans never gained their value back, so these companies are filled with old people who can't retire and are being worked to death. Their management is lining their pockets with bonuses while they fire employees, sell off capital and let the rest go to hell. The Mississippi River bridge collapse was just the beginning of the problems we will soon see. Power grids, plants, telephone networks and other vital infrastructure are all being run down under the stewardship of greedy asswipes who think they are rock stars.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Windows 2003 *is* the server version of XP. There is no "Windows XP Server Edition". Really, if you don't really know anything at all about Windows, don't raise absurd and stupid questions just to bash it. There is no admin worth the name on this planet that would accept a patch that would silently (install and) enable a major software component such as IIS. To even suggest this as a "logical" question shows you are truly an asshole that lives to put MS down.