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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
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.
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.