Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 3rd Feb 2007 16:34 UTC, submitted by jayson.knight
"In the February 2007 survey we received responses from 108810358 sites, an increase of 1.93 million from last month. Apache has a decline of 442K sites this month, and sees its share of the web server market slip by 1.47 percent to 58.7 percent. This is the first time Apache's market share has been below 60 percent since September 2002. Microsoft-IIS gain 935K sites, continuing an advance that has seen Microsoft steadily chip away at what once seemed an insurmountable lead for Apache. In our Feb. 2006 survey, Apache held 68% market share, giving it lead of 47.5% over Windows (20.5% share). In this month's survey, Microsoft's share has improved to 31.0%, narrowing Apache's advantage to 27.7%."
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How is that unfortunate? IIS is a simple, robust, secure, extensible, fast web server.
For the most part, I agree. There's nothing wrong with IIS, and it's pretty darned simple to administer, which makes it all the more useful to your small/medium business it dept. I feel that apache represents freedom from the (sometimes absurd, at least for your average joe) business-licensing rules of microsoft. If I build an office football pool web app, and want to host it with IIS on my windows xp pro machine, I had better hope that no more than 10 people view it at a time. If I'm running a LAMP stack, I'm free from those sort of restrictions.
In general, I think microsoft makes some excellent software, it's just the restrictions they place on you using it that gets to me. I can pirate a copy of win2k3 server, or I can fight the man legitimately with apache. Seeing less apache just makes me think that people are getting complacent (minimizes pirated copy of dreamweaver...)