Not long ago, TechNewsWorld published a story describing divergent conclusions reached by two recent studies of Web server market share. One, the latest in an ongoing series conducted by UK-based Netcraft, cast its net wide and surveyed a sample of more than 45 million Web sites. It concluded that open-source Apache controls some 67 percent of that market, with Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) server a distant second at 20 percent. Port80 Software begged to differ. The Port80 report generated considerable debate.
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Stat Wars 2: A Tale of Two Surveys on Apache and IIS
Posted by: David Halperin February 25, 2004 05:30 AMNot long ago, TechNewsWorld published a story describing divergent conclusions reached by two recent studies of Web server market share. One, the latest in an ongoing series conducted by UK-based Netcraft, cast its net wide and surveyed a sample of more than 45 million Web sites. It concluded that open-source Apache controls some 67 percent of that market, with Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) server a distant second at 20 percent. Port80 Software begged to differ. The Port80 report generated considerable debate.