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You have a strange idea of what "dramatically" means. Apache now has
roughly the same market share it had 3 years ago. It had gone down
quite a bit in the last three years and has only recently been able to
recover.
Bullshit Erik.
Bullshit? Anyone looking at the graph can see what i'm saying.
Apache's market share is at an all time high.
A misleading statement. It's true that it's at an all time high only
because it's essentially at the same level as it's previous all time high.
Something
that can't be said for, say, IIS, which is far below it's peak.
Interesting that you say "far below" it's peak. It's about 13% below it's
peak, however that peak was the result of only a few large sites waffling
between different OS's. IIS is only about 5% below it's average for the
last 2 years. Further, much of this loss is because of a some large sites
that have moved, not to Apache, but SunONE.
In fact,
IIS has actually lost not only in market share, but in raw numbers, over
the last couple of years.
And again, that's largely because of a few bulk providers that switched.
In Dec 2001, IIS was on 11,156,732 sites according to Netcraft.
In September's survey, it's only on 10,156,289,
it's been dropping in raw numbers since April... Apache by contrast, has
the highest market share it's ever had, and is serving from more sites,
than ever before as well. So Erik You are full of shit on this.
That drop is primarily the result of the switch to SunONE by Network
Solutions. As you can see from the August survey:
"Following on from last month, Microsoft continued to lose sites as Network
Solutions migrated the rest of their domain parking system back to Solaris
from a Windows based system hosted at Interland. This is primarily
responsible for Microsoft's 2.2% fall, with a net loss of 810,597 sites."
And the July Survey:
"SunONE's significant increase of 254,603 sites is primarily attributable
to Network Solutions' migrating around a quarter of a million parked sites
back to a Solaris platform. NSI originally ran its domain parking system on
Solaris, but moved large numbers of parked domains to a Microsoft-IIS
system hosted at Interland over a year ago. NSI still hosts a significant
number of parked sites at Interland."
Microsoft has maintained about the same number of sites for quite some
time, There has, however, been a fairly large increase in the total number
of sites over the last few months. In June, Netcraft only reported 40
million sites. In September, 43 million. Even without the loss of NSI,
MS's share would have gone down simply because it wasn't growing new sites
at very high rate.
Apache does seem to be gaining a lot of new sites, with most new sites
coming up on Apache. But the reasons for that are still unclear.
Slightly up from 3 years ago, and more than twice that down from it's
peak 18 months ago.
An artificial peak, actually. It lasted only one month. Apache, however
is only half a percent higher than it was 3 years ago.
IIS peaked in the March 2002 survey, in both raw
numbers, and market share, it's been a long slide downhill for IIS since
then. Compare that to Apache across the same timeframe, Apache is up in
raw numbers (from 20 million sites to 27 million) and market share (from
53% in march 2002, to 64% now)
Largely at the cost of other web server platforms. It should also be noted
that Apache doesn't mean it's not Windows. Apache 2 was released in that
time frame, which provided far better performance than Apache 1.3 on
Windows. I would not be surprised if a large part of that gain by Apache
was Apache 2 on Windows.
This is getting to be a habit, you make wild unsubstantiated claims
about IIS or Apache and their performance in the Netcraft survey, and I
rip you to shreds with the facts.
Ouch!
You have done no such thing. The fact is, Apache does not have any
significantly better marketshare than it had 3 years ago. In September of
2000, IIS had a 19.56% market share. Apache had 60.02% market share.
Today, IIS has a 23.54% market share, and Apache has 64.52%. Or, roughly
the same growth in share in three years. Both have gained roughly 4% in
that time frame.
In other words, the statistics show identical growth, with variations from
month to month.
You might want to check your claims above Erik. Maybe a touch of
research next time, would help you.
Maybe you should do the same.
