[thelist] excellent article

[Daniel J. Cody]

Theres a lot more to this whole thing than can be expressed here, but I 
just wanted to point out one thing..

He starts the article off by saying
"The 5% gain in Microsoft's webserver market share at the expense of 
Apache is distressing, but if anything, overdue. Apache is like the 
cartoon character that has walked off the edge of a cliff a while ago, 
and has just looked down.
"
..
"So it's nothing short of miraculous that Apache managed to retain its 
market share for about two years while essentially treading water."

which(IMO) he intends to be the basis for his entire article(Apache lost 
5% in one month, everyone is moving to IIS) and proceeds to say what he 
says about the future of apache, blah blah, etc..

What he fails to point out(or at least point out well) is that this huge 
5% 'the sky is falling' decline was a direct result of two hosting 
companies moving to NT/IIS ( http://www.netcraft.com/survey/ )

Apache has hardly been treading water as he suggests(this is only the 
second time apache has lost market share in the past 3-4 years). I'm not 
real up to date on the whole 'web services' thing(is this a new name for 
'web applications'?), but just because "everyone" is talking about 
"something" thats going to be The Next Big Thing(tm) doesn't mean its 
going to happen, no matter *HOW* much money is behind it.

Push technology ring a bell?

.djc.

Jay Greenspan wrote:
> Got the link from Slashdot, so some of you have probably seen it 
> already. If you have anything to do with open source software and 
> haven't seen this, give it a read.  I think a lot of what he says is 
> dead on.