Thursday, July 1. 2004
Netcraft on a soapbox
The Netcraft Web Server Survey for July is out, and Netcraft notes that market share for Apache:IIS has been virtually unchanged for the year (8 Apache to 3 IIS). But the editors at Netcraft aren't staying neutral anymore (emphasis mine):
That's a pretty strong statement. I wonder when IIS will cease to be the automatic answer for businesses....
The months ahead may test that stability, given recent security problems with Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS). Numerous sites running IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000 were compromised and used to install password-stealing trojans on the machines of Internet users visiting those sites. Microsoft insists only unpatched servers were breached, but the initial version of the key Win2K patch was buggy. It remains to be seen whether having infected their own customers with malware will prompt the affected Microsoft-IIS 5.0 sites to switch platforms.
That's a pretty strong statement. I wonder when IIS will cease to be the automatic answer for businesses....
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