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Questioning market share?
If you want to start questioning market share, then you have to question all methods of collecting this data.

How about browsers? How do you account for the great number of browsers that pretend that they are IE simple because web developers are so stupid that they won't let other browsers into their sites enough though any browser would work very well with their content.

How about OS? Market Share is typically calculated by sales data. So, how do you account for all those Mac users who buy their machines at a once every 5-6 year clip, instead of the once every 2-3 years for Wintel customers? Or worse yet, that Microsoft calculates how many customers they have by how many Windows packages are sent out. Who cares if the customer actually ended up with Linux on the machine after dumping XP.

Don't talk about variances of market share when it hurts Microsoft's numbers until you're ready to complain about the variances that help them.
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DUH  GRindinAxTaRupy | 01/12/04
Depends on who's stats you are reading.  linusconcepcion@... | 01/12/04
Sorry but...  NemesisNL | 01/13/04
And there is more  Mack DaNife | 01/13/04
I Agree ....  coffeenite | 01/13/04
in the end.. it's all just statistics..  linusconcepcion@... | 01/12/04
No, these are exact numbers of servers and what they are running.  DonnieBoy | 01/12/04
That must be why....  MarcB_z | 01/12/04
That is why  Doug@... | 01/12/04
Linux thieves?  IT_User | 01/12/04
Wow...  Martin Marvinski | 01/12/04
YEAH!  Yen_z | 01/12/04
Thieves?  slartibartfast_z | 01/12/04
Yes, thieves  Yagotta B. Kidding | 01/13/04
NT:What was reasonable about that voice??  Mack DaNife | 01/13/04
Biased study, unscientific methods  Mike Cox | 01/12/04
In other news..  Mike Cox | 01/12/04
Ever consuming bandwidth .net technology  nucrash | 01/13/04
No Mike - don't leave!  IT_User | 01/12/04
Microsoft Visual C# .net uses IIS but not Apache!  GraysonPeddie | 01/12/04
Very few are stupid enough to use C#.  DonnieBoy | 01/12/04
That said by someone who probably  d_jedi | 01/12/04
I use C# and VB.Net, and Java too.  coffeenite | 01/13/04
RE: Biased study, unscientific methods  betelgeuse68 | 01/12/04
Give him a break  slopoke | 01/12/04
are you crazy?  RedHat9User | 01/13/04
Trolling are we Mike?  ron@... | 01/12/04
Huh?  openMind | 01/13/04
Mike Cox is in the Linux Camp  ShadeTree | 01/13/04
You have to love it when he posts  nucrash | 01/13/04
Re: Biased study, unscientific methods  mbratch | 01/13/04
Biased and Unscientific - hmm sounds like M$ marketing claims....  jwaggoner | 01/13/04
My contribution to the firestorm I'm sure will follow.  Yen_z | 01/12/04
Good one!  IT_User | 01/12/04
I'll report myself.  Yen_z | 01/12/04
No, this is serious  IT_User | 01/12/04
more strenuous action  Chris Moller | 01/13/04
To the editor  Richard Flude | 01/12/04
And also worth mentioning in the story...  Richard Flude | 01/13/04
The pain at Microsoft.  DonnieBoy | 01/12/04
But how many of those Apache sites are enterprise sites?  linusconcepcion@... | 01/12/04
Look more closely...  emartin_z | 01/12/04
you are right.  linusconcepcion@... | 01/12/04
agenda?  dwest_z | 01/13/04
Look at the sites.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/13/04
Almost all of the big sites are using Apache.  DonnieBoy | 01/12/04
Not what is getting reported....  quietLee | 01/13/04
BarnesandNobel?  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/13/04
Google, Weather, and Orbitz big enough. There are more.  Taz_z | 01/13/04
Why do I care about Port 80?  Mack DaNife | 01/13/04
Questioning market share?  openMind | 01/13/04
Would you consider MS a "hobbyist"?  coffeenite | 01/13/04
Get over it  pschroeder@... | 01/13/04
Mass exodus?  pschroeder@... | 01/12/04
It is so embarassing telling people you work at Microsoft.  DonnieBoy | 01/12/04
Right  pschroeder@... | 01/12/04
Out of curiosity...  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/13/04
Don't forget "guys" at SCO  Taz_z | 01/13/04
1  pschroeder@... | 01/13/04
One last thought  pschroeder@... | 01/13/04
That's now always true ...  coffeenite | 01/13/04
Not last  pschroeder@... | 01/13/04
Where's the thought?  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/13/04
here  pschroeder@... | 01/13/04
Don't take it personally.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/13/04
not taking it personally  pschroeder@... | 01/13/04
Don't forget the full time patch administrators  Taz_z | 01/13/04
Never met one of those...  pschroeder@... | 01/13/04
YOu must have some very dumb administrators.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/13/04
Only one part time. We use JBoss. It's Nimda-proof.  Taz_z | 01/13/04
As dumb as Bit?  No_Ax_Has_No_Clue | 01/13/04
Who says Linux developers don't get paid?  MarcB_z | 01/12/04
Don't get paid?  IT_User | 01/12/04
What?  Yen_z | 01/12/04
To all: read the original post  pschroeder@... | 01/12/04
Overheaduncompensated  IT_User | 01/13/04
overhead  pschroeder@... | 01/13/04
where will they all go?  NemesisNL | 01/13/04
where will they all go?  NemesisNL | 01/13/04
Re: Mass exodus?  mbratch | 01/13/04
read it again  pschroeder@... | 01/13/04
Best Paid?  rpmyers1 | 01/13/04
What does this tell us?  d_jedi | 01/12/04
Flawed, Flawed, Flawed  Mack DaNife | 01/13/04
It tells us how ignorant you are.  Taz_z | 01/13/04
You must work in marketing  Chad_z | 01/13/04
Interesting statistic  John Carroll ZDNet Moderator | 01/13/04
Hmm  NemesisNL | 01/13/04
???!!  Mack DaNife | 01/13/04
IIS in the enterprise?  IT_User | 01/13/04
It's Simple Folks!!!  chrichton99 | 01/13/04
So how come nobody's doing that? (NT)  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/13/04
An interesting notion of simple  IT_User | 01/13/04
Oh! I get it now.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/13/04
Nonsense  NemesisNL | 01/14/04
Aw, come on John  Taz_z | 01/13/04
It helps if you call a Web server a "Web server"  KSchaefer | 01/13/04
Hormel Foods  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/13/04
"Internet Information Services"  pschroeder@... | 01/13/04
Free?  rpmyers1 | 01/13/04
BOTH products are free???  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/13/04
IIS is *NOT* free  Robert Crocker | 01/13/04
More interesting statistics  Richard Flude | 01/13/04
Re: Interesting statistic  Mark Miller | 01/14/04
i HOPE someone already mentioned this...  ryusen | 01/14/04
Interesting  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/13/04
Hobby websites  mrlinux | 01/13/04
Can't you offer anything else?  John Dulles | 01/13/04
How about these? They are pretty damn big.  Taz_z | 01/13/04
Don't forget the US Army  MarcB_z | 01/13/04
I don't think the department of defense has ever used IIS...  KSchaefer | 01/13/04
He's talking about www.army.com.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/13/04
Not exactly.  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/13/04
And don't forget about Microsoft Too  coffeenite | 01/13/04
The Register??? Buwahahahaha  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/13/04
Are you refuting their story?  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 01/13/04
Get over it already  pschroeder@... | 01/13/04
My favorite quote from that article  pschroeder@... | 01/13/04
Alternatively  pschroeder@... | 01/13/04
I never denied this  Taz_z | 01/13/04
apache is great  JWatson77 | 01/13/04

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