"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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Member since:2005-07-06
"Unfortunately, this upward trend for IIS is only going to continue."
How is that unfortunate? IIS is a simple, robust, secure, extensible, fast web server. Sure it only runs on Windows, but you can have your pick of runtimes (ala PHP, Coldfusion, JSP, etc) to run on top of it with minimal hassle or configuration. I don't usually laud MS for the quality of their software, but IIS ranks in the top 5% of any product out on the market at this time.
As far as the exclusivity of MS in IT shops...I too have found this to be true in MORGS, but most companies with more than a couple thousand employees are mixed, and for good reason. The good news is that most of the major vendors seem to be playing very nicely with each other lately, which makes the end resuls of writing software that targets the best platform from a business decision making standpoint that much easier. IT shops generally don't care about the platform, they care about time to market, ROI, and other business related factors.
Member since:2006-03-27
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...)
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2006-03-27
Unfortunately, this upward trend for IIS is only going to continue. There's a LOT of people developing with .net these days, and while you can install plugins for apache, it's a lot easier to run a windows infrastructure. Most company IT divisions seem to be exclusively microsoft shops. I occasionally train web developers on dreamweaver, and a lot of these guys don't even know what php is.
You know, it's kind of ironic, but I see Apple as being the premier open-source advocate these days, what with osx being packaged with apache, and osx server with mysql.