Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Jul 2007 14:35 UTC, submitted by E. Stride
From Netcraft's latest web survey: "Microsoft adds 2.4 million sites this month, pushing the total number of sites running on Windows servers past 40 million, and helping Microsoft improve its market share by 1.01% to 32.8%. The open source Apache server has an increase of 556k, and slips back 1.11% to 52.65%. Google gains 592k sites this month, and now has 4.35% share. In active sites, Apache is now at 49.98% share, less than 14.5% ahead of Microsoft. While that's still a considerable lead, Apache had a 33.4% advantage at this time last July, meaning MS has cut its deficit in half in the past 12 months."
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And even worse, they seemed to have it in their minds that OSS was mutually exclusive with all microsoft & windows stuff -- and if I knew OSS stuff that meant I didn't know anything about MS stuff.
Funny story about that. Years ago I worked for a company that prided itself on its Microsoft Partner status. Everything was Microsoft. Well, there were two of us Linux dudes at the company. We were considered oddballs. However, in order to be Microsoft Certified Solution Providers, they had to get some people with Microsoft certifications. Well, most of the Microsoft people had trouble passing the tests. So us Linux dudes went off and passed the tests and got certified so the company could meet its goal.
The point is, just because you like Linux, or are an OSS enthusiast, does NOT mean you are ignorant of Microsoft technologies. I am a .NET developer, and am very familiar with setting up Winders boxes. I just prefere Free Software for ethical and personal reasons.
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2005-11-29
Six months ago I was having a job interview for a small-ish size company that provides networking & service plans for businesses (the local credit unions, etc), along with a bit of in house webhosting & webdesign.
I remember touting my almost 10 years of experience with unix/linux/bsd & opensource stuff (as I was hoping to get in on their hosting side of things)... wow, that was a big mistake. The reaction I got was basically "none of that is important to business"...
And even worse, they seemed to have it in their minds that OSS was mutually exclusive with all microsoft & windows stuff -- and if I knew OSS stuff that meant I didn't know anything about MS stuff.
This is the kind of strange mentality that many business-type people have -- they create their own self-fulfilling prophecies by making decisions based upon what they think everyone else is doing.
This phenomenon is how A LOT of IIS sites get online.