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Wow, Linux really zooms against M$ in those Netcraft numbers!

Big turnover FROM Win ==> TO Linux/Apache
machines & servers! Bigger than usual, nearly 2.5%
swing each (+/-)..

Apache's improvements, as reported in the last 30
days, can only help this trend. The WinServer2003
rollout is already likely fully-expressed in the numbers,
so it continues to look good for Apache/Linux.

[IMHO, this is one cynical reason for Szulik's
intemperate remarks! He's kissing the consumer end of
the biz buh-buy, but why throw a freebie like that to
M$? What's the percentage?

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NETCRAFT:
"In the November 2003 survey we received responses
from 44,946,965 sites.

"Apache has a significant percentage gain this month
as register.com, a leading domain registrar with a
domain parking system serving responses for over one
million domains eliminated its Windows front end, and
reverted to Linux and Apache which it ran previously.

"Barely weeks ago its largest rival, Network Solutions
made a similar switch from Microsoft-IIS back to
SunOne, nee Netscape-Enterprise, for its own domain
parking system.

"During 2001 and the first half of 2002 several
companies hosting very large numbers of hostnames
including Webjump, Namezero, Homestead,
register.com and Network Solutions migrated to
Microsoft-IIS.

Subsequently these businesses have either failed,
significantly changed their business model, or reverted
to their previous platform, and Microsoft-IIS share is
now in line with its long term pre-summer 2001 level of
around 20%."

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