>> - AW's case is also with the wisdom of using Windows. Consider his >> perspective:
I do and I also respect it. I just don’t completely agree with it. Please don’t mistake my advocacy for a more Windows friendly product as a denigration or disrespect for the incredible and selfless work he and the development team has put into this product. I use it and am actually trying to get others, albeit in the Windows world, to adopt it as well. The issue I have seen preventing it is the lack of a “supported” or easy installation on the Windows platform. If that is not the direction they wish to take in the development of Open BD so be it. It was not clear before and this discussion helped clarify the issue and hopefully served as a point of information for their future decisions. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2015 4:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OpenBD] OpenBD IIS - "Coming Soon"? I think that - despite the recent advances by Microsoft which alters the percentage of systems using Windows - AW's case is also with the wisdom of using Windows. Consider his perspective: He's in the UK - where the penetration percentages might be wildly different than Netcraft's total numbers. I don't see where they break it down by continent or country (not that I looked all that hard), but I would just guess that MS has a greater share in countries that permit their licensing model to make them the most money. Al On 4/2/2015 12:36 PM, Halo Maps wrote: > Our official support for OpenBD does not include Windows. In our > experience, the vast majority of people simply don't use Windows as a > frontend webserver; it doesn't make any sense. I and Netcraft tend to disagree with your assertion. I often see this bias in other Open Source products and while I fully understand it the empirical evidence often times tends to indicate otherwise. And I quote: "Microsoft and Apache currently take the lion's share of the web server market (just over 71% combined), while Microsoft edged into the lead for the first time in July 2014. Nginx has been steadily gaining share over the last 7 years, and is now used to serve just over 14% of all hostnames." http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/09/24/september-2014-web-server-survey.html A look at the latest Stats indicate that the Microsoft web server is still on par with past surveys and is second only to Apache as a major portion of the market. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/category/web-server-survey/ Developer February 2015 Percent March 2015 Percent Change Apache 342,480,920 38.77% 337,175,536 38.39% -0.38 Microsoft 253,484,221 28.69% 245,496,533 27.95% -0.74 nginx 130,093,899 14.73% 127,191,696 14.48% -0.25 Google 20,238,057 2.29% 20,097,702 2.29% -0.00 I Tend to work more in the Windows world than in the ‘Nix environment so my bias led me to advocate for a more Windows friendly product. I understand if that Is not the direction OpenBD is to take but evidence indicates that it is not a market to be dismissed as inconsequential. -- -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Open BlueDragon" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Open BlueDragon" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Open BlueDragon" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
