In stark contrast to statistics released by Netcraft, a survey conducted by San Diego-based Port80 Software indicates that Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) server is used by more high-traffic Web sites than the rival Apache server. Port80 Software polled the 1,000 most-visited Web sites on the Internet and found that IIS serves more than 43 percent of high-traffic sites, while Apache accounts for slightly less than 40 percent of that market segment.
I call bull. The top 1000 sites seems very arbitrary. Wouldn't a few arbitrary studies be a little more accurate? Such as top 10, 100, 1000, 10000, top web hosting providers, top government sites, top private sector sites, top e-commerce sites, etc. etc.I am willing to bet they did do quite a few tests; And the one that resulted most favorably for Microsoft was released publicly. Though they were not directly paid, I sure wouldn't be too suprised if they recieved the Microsoft royal treatment in benefits. i.e. getting to go to Microsoft trade shows as VIP's etc. etc. I think almost every industry "study" has become COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY UNRELIABLE. That goes for both sides. IBM and Sun too (though they are not nearly as bad as MS). I do not for one second believe the credibility of a company that does a report on IIS that uses IIS (though they mask their server identification, IIS is pretty easy to fingerprint). Not only do they use it, they freakin are the IIS equivalent to mod_perl and O'Reilly combined. They write software for IIS. This is the equivalent of the good folks at mod_perl doing a study resulting favorably for Apache. Take this one with a huge grain of salt. Please visit their website for yourself and see exactly what they do, they sell IIS related software.
THe number one site?? Yahoo= not IIS MSN and microsoft are the same place. passport.net and passport.com are the same site were yahoo to divide things by tv.yahoo.com, groups.yahoo.com, mail.yahoo...and google did the same they may well make up the top 100 sites. AOL, google, amazon, geocities, mapquest, cnn, lycos, netscape, weather, about, adobe, tripod, real, com.com all not IIS. In fact the only sites running IIS and not on the Microsoft netblock. are dell, ebay and go. Go is now owned by Disney who's entire family is not IIS (abc, disney, movies.com, espn) so I imagine Disney will bring them into line eventually. Ebay is still on NT4 which makes them a perfect candidate for migration to Open Source. Oh and dell who I would not be surprised if they get uber discounts for selling 99.9% MS based stuff. I have seen enough. And as for the port80 folks running servermask, doh it's their product to mask IIS server versions....Oh and stroll over to netcraft and witness the other half of the battle. Uptimes.... cheers, 5
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Microsoft’s IIS Serves More High-Traffic Sites than Apache
Posted by: Jay Lyman February 4, 2004 02:32 PMIn stark contrast to statistics released by Netcraft, a survey conducted by San Diego-based Port80 Software indicates that Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) server is used by more high-traffic Web sites than the rival Apache server. Port80 Software polled the 1,000 most-visited Web sites on the Internet and found that IIS serves more than 43 percent of high-traffic sites, while Apache accounts for slightly less than 40 percent of that market segment.
Yahoo= not IIS
MSN and microsoft are the same place.
passport.net and passport.com are the same site
were yahoo to divide things by tv.yahoo.com, groups.yahoo.com, mail.yahoo...and google did the same they may well make up the top 100 sites.
AOL, google, amazon, geocities, mapquest, cnn, lycos, netscape, weather, about, adobe, tripod, real, com.com all not IIS. In fact the only sites running IIS and not on the Microsoft netblock. are dell, ebay and go. Go is now owned by Disney who's entire family is not IIS (abc, disney, movies.com, espn) so I imagine Disney will bring them into line eventually. Ebay is still on NT4 which makes them a perfect candidate for migration to Open Source. Oh and dell who I would not be surprised if they get uber discounts for selling 99.9% MS based stuff.
I have seen enough. And as for the port80 folks running servermask, doh it's their product to mask IIS server versions....Oh and stroll over to netcraft and witness the other half of the battle. Uptimes....
cheers,
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