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> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:36:02PM -0000, Jim Winstead wrote:
>> jimw Fri Jan 12 15:36:02 2001 EDT
>>
>> Modified files:
>> /phpdoc/en/chapters intro.xml
>> Log: rearrange text a bit, update netcraft numbers
>
>> - Survey</ulink>) would be that PHP is in use on over 3,300,000
>> - sites around the world. To put that in perspective, that is more
>> - sites than run Netscape's flagship Enterprise server on the
>> - Internet, and close to the total number of IIS servers on the
>> - Internet (3.8 million).
>> + Survey</ulink>) would be that PHP is in use on over 5,100,000
>> + sites around the world. To put that in perspective, that is
>> + more sites than run Microsoft's IIS server on the Internet
>> + (4.7 million).
>
> Look at www.dynamic-webpages.de and you will see that this figures are
> outdated. Where do you get the figures from Microsoft IIS? If you do
> some calculation with recent estimations, than you can expect more than
> 20 % of Webservers worldwide running PHP.
look again. the 5.1 million number is the most up-to-date number, and
came straight from netcraft (it was used in a press release recently).
the microsoft number comes from http://www.netcraft.com/survey/ (but i
had grabbed the next-to-most-recent number by mistake -- fixed now).
> If nobody updates this very old graphic at php.net, I will change it
> with Wolfgangs recent graphic.
rasmus was working on updating it.
jim
