On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Mark Waser wrote: >> Their overall figure of 73% for Apache and 19% for Microsoft IIS >> sounds reasonable to me. > > Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's science in action . . . . pick the method > that produces the statistics that you want to hear. If surveying all the > web sites on the web doesn't produce the numbers you want/expect, select > some subset that does and then rationalize your choice. > > Remember the phrase about lies, damn lies, and statistics? I am appalled. >
No Mark. It is partly the result of a deliberate MS policy to make their market share look bigger than it actually is. Always remember, the main thing that MS is good at is marketing. This article explains the two big changes in the Netcraft graph of websites (NOT web servers). <http://ostatic.com/158627-blog/web-servers-dont-count-apache-out> Quote: Microsoft picked up 5% of the market in one fell swoop in early 2006 when Go Daddy moved all of their millions of parked (i.e., not active by any sensible definition) domains from Apache servers to IIS. A win for Microsoft, to be sure, but not an indicator of any particular trend. ------------ And, Quote: In mid-2007, the 8 million or so Google-served sites started reporting themselves as "GFE" rather than Apache - even though GFE may well be a private fork of the Apache codebase. ------------------- So MS has inflated it's Netcraft numbers by the simple tactic of persuading registrars to dump dead sites on IIS and Google has grabbed 6% by not reporting itself as Apache anymore. See - it's simple really. BillK ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: http://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=103754539-40ed26 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
