[TriLUG] Fw: WHERE ARE YOU?

[al johson]

Well, to be precise--"I" did not say this, I am merely quoting a source
which all of you can read. "I" merely thought it interesting, not because of
the number of  servers alleged to be either MS or Linux, but because of what
the so-called "experts" are recommending, namely that Microsoft software
should be abandoned and Linux should be used for server applications. In
other words, don't get exercised over the details (we all know that the
actual number of MS vs Linux servers is imprecise), but cheer the support
that Linux is receiving in the server marketplace from a business research
group which apparently has a lot of influence in the business community.
Again this report was not WRITTEN by me. A friend of mine forwarded it to me
and I, thinking it would be interesting to this community, thought all of
you would be interested in reading it. --But if you want to argue about it,
instead of studying it, you miss the whole point. In short, (in case you
didn't understand it!) the point is that Microsoft is losing the server
market to Linux, whether it has already lost it (due to imprecise counting
of Linux servers) is another question altogether.
I just suggest you all read the entire report and make your own judgements.
Incidentally, the guy who sent this to me passionately despises Microsoft
software (almost as much as I do!!).

----- Original Message -----
From: rpjday <rpjday at mindspring.com>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 5:50 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Fw: WHERE ARE YOU?


> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, al johson wrote:
>
> >
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:57 PM
> > Subject: WHERE ARE YOU?
> > >
> > > But the report did show that Microsoft still owns almost 50 per cent
of
> > > the web server market, while Linux is in second place with almost 30
per
> > > cent. Next is Solaris and BSD with seven per cent and six per cent
> > > respectively.
>
> ?????.  how exactly is this market share being measured?  since according
> to the latest survey at www.netcraft.com, apache is far and away the most
> popular web server software.
>
> is that report using a different definition of "web server market"?
>
> rday
>
> --
> Robert P. J. Day
> Eno River Technologies, Durham NC
> Unix, Linux and Open Source training
>
>
> Microsoft:  Committed to putting the "backward" into "backward
compatibility."
>
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