On Sat, 1 May 2004 11:06:21 -0400, John J. McDonough wrote:
> Not hugely surprising.  These things are based on surveys, and the numbers
> are going to look different depending on who you survey.  Netcraft is a
> European outfit, and likely to end up with a different group of respondents
> than a US company.  The data I was basing my comments on was a little stale,
> too, just about the time those Netcraft graphs show a drop in Apache
> corresponding to a jump in M$.  And it was from PC Week, whose respondents
> are likely to be more heavily biased toward corporate types, where M$ is a
> little more successful.

True enough about Netcraft, but I've seen pretty similar numbers in the
half dozen or so other web server statistic report/surveys I've seen so
I tend to believe they are in the right ballpark.

> In a way it's comforting to see better Apache numbers <g>
>
> Please don't picture me as a cheerleader for IIS.  As a former big corporate
> type, I do see a place for it inside the corporate LAN, but when I went
> looking for a provider for my own corporate site, Apache was a requirement.
> Personally, I think it's irresponsible to expose IIS directly to the
> Internet.

I actually agree with you on these points. I'm really neither a
cheerleader or basher for either OS. I run Win2K for my workstations
and Linux (and a few other OS's) on servers and other systems. I think
they both have their place. I'm actually a (more or less) blatant
capitalist and "freedom of choice" guy.

My only real gripes with Microsoft are the manner in which they do
business, not how much money they make or their market share. I vote
with my pocketbook and Win2K is the last OS of theirs I'll buy
willingly unless they change the way they do business, regardless of
their product quality. I do have a copy of WinXP installed on my test
bench, but only because a client required and paid for it.

Matt Pobursky
Maximum Performance Systems

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