What makes you think it's based on a local region. It's not like the send surveys to website owners or hosts. Netcraft automatically polls the sites in its survey the same way google automatically crawls sites to search. I have web sites hosted in Hong Kong and the US (all running on Apache), and they're all included. Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "John J. McDonough" To: Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 8:06 AM Subject: Re: [OT:] Windows/Linux security > 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. > > In a way it's comforting to see better Apache numbers > > 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. > > --McD > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matt Pobursky" > Subject: Re: [OT:] Windows/Linux security > > > > I'm not sure where you might have gotten data on those numbers, but > > Netcraft (probably the most trusted OS neutral data source) says > > otherwise: > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads