Open source rising
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| Apache, the world’s numero uno Web server, is going strong. As per Netcraft’s
| December 2007 survey, Apache has close to 50% of the market with Microsoft’s
| IIS coming second with almost 36%. The contender to watch here is Google
| which is increasing its market share (now 5.5%) unlike all the other players
| which are seeing slow declines.
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| Talking of Netcraft, it has a rather interesting search that lets you find
| out what OS any site is running and it lists download.microsoft.com and
| search.microsoft.com as running Linux. Strange, if true.
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http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20080211/edit01.shtml
They cite Microsoft-tainted (via IDC) figures on Linux, which is part of the
Big Lie concept.
Recent:
Apache increases market share in web server survey
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| Netcraft's web researchers counted 155,583,825 sites in January, which is
| 354,000 more than in December.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/102947/from/rss09
Apache gains Yahoo! sponsorship
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| Yahoo! has become a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation, which
| supports the Apache web server and other open source projects.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15792/1054/
2007 earns Apache more feathers in its cap
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| Open source and all-volounteer group, the Apache Software Foundation (ASF),
| today announced that last year finished as its strongest yet. Not only does
| this indicate just what most already know - that open source is growing from
| strength to strength - but also that it doesn’t take big money and a
| for-profit attitude for this to happen.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2039
Apache gains market share
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| Anyway, in the November statistic Apache grew by 3% (1.29% active sites)
| while IIS lost 1.29% (1.05%). There is no explanation given by Netcraft and
| there has been no big news about any change of some big host or something
| similar (these percent points equal millions of sites!). So this might be
| just a statistical disturbance - or indeed a change of direction. Time will
| tell.
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http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/apache-gains-market-share/
Older:
Open Source Fights Back
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| Question: The OpenSourceParking.com announcement cites a Netcraft
| report, which found that GoDaddy.com's migration from Linux to Windows
| caused Apache to lose server share. Was this event the sole impetus
| for OpenSourceParking.com?
|
| Perens: Not the first. It's part of a continuing behavior pattern by
| Microsoft that I think it's fair to call "dirty fighting." GoDaddy was
| using Apache (I assume on Linux) because it was a great technical
| solution. They didn't switch to IIS on Windows Server 2003 for any
| technical reason. The switch was accompanied by a press release by
| GoDaddy, containing Microsoft promotional language. Now, I've changed
| many servers from one thing to another, but I've never made a press
| release about it. GoDaddy wouldn't be doing that unless Microsoft had
| offered them something valuable in return. There has been talk in the
| domain business that Microsoft has been offering the large domain
| registries a wad of cash to switch their parked sites. There is no
| other reason to do this than to influence the Netcraft figures.
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/item/?ci=15108
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