[thelist] excellent article

stout at stoutstreet.com stout at stoutstreet.com
Wed Aug 15 12:30:16 CDT 2001


Apache losing market share???

CODE RED, CODE RED!!!!! 

Apache is doomed. Here's why:
http://bbspot.com/News/2001/07/worm.html

>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.
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