85% of companies have adopted open source

[Jonti]

Apache may be turning the tide now ...

In the October 2008 survey we received responses from 182,226,259 sites, which reflects growth of 948 thousand since last month.

Apache once again shows the largest growth, gaining 463 thousand sites this month.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2008/10/29/october_2008_web_server_survey.html

 

[untethered]

Apache may be turning the tide now ...
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2008/10/29/october_2008_web_server_survey.html

I suppose it's not your fault that you're misled by Netcraft's poor interpretation of their own statistics.

Apache has shown the largest growth numerically because it's the largest single server in the market. Its market share has declined by 0.01% while Microsoft's has increased by 0.04%. Those are the figures that matter.

 

[stowpirate]

I suppose it's not your fault that you're misled by Netcraft's poor interpretation of their own statistics.

Apache has shown the largest growth numerically because it's the largest single server in the market. Its market share has declined by 0.01% while Microsoft's has increased by 0.04%. Those are the figures that matter.

So Microsoft has increased it's market share by 300%

 

[Jonti]

Here's an interesting take on the raw numbers.

... there's not much to these numbers. An IIS server is not equal to an Apache server in any way, shape or form. It would be like saying there are more IIS bicycles on the road than Apache locomotives, so therefore IIS is more important to the transport of people or goods. It's demonstrably bunk. While quantitative evidence is out there regarding applications and numbers of users per server, I think the following anecdotal bit sums it up nicely.
more ...

 

[Jonti]

A couple of interesting things to look at ... sites with longest uptime and Top 1000 Corporations' Web Servers.

 

[untethered]

A couple of interesting things to look at ... sites with longest uptime and Top 1000 Corporations' Web Servers.

Yes, that is surprising. Who'd have thought that two of the top three sites by uptime would be running IIS?

Learn something new every day.

 

[Jonti]

fun with statistics

I'm sure readers are grateful for your kind interpretation of that difficult to interpret list!

But you may just as well have said that of the twenty webservers that have been running continuously for the longest length of time, only two are ms, and a whopping eighteen are running apache!

 

[untethered]

I'm sure readers are grateful for your kind interpretation of that difficult to interpret list!

But you may just as well have said that of the twenty webservers that have been running continuously for the longest length of time, only two are ms, and a whopping eighteen are running apache!

Recommended reading:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Lie-Statistics-Penguin-business/dp/0140136290/

 

[gnoriac]

More interestingly, out of their top 50, the vast majority are running BSD.