[SGVLUG] Microsoft's nightmare inches closer to reality

[Mike Fedyk]

Dustin wrote:

>His point was that Microsoft correctly realized that the WWW could be
>proprietized (is that a word?) by controlling both client and server.  
>That meant they had to have a browser to compete with Netscape, and we all
>know how that turned out.  They also had to make IIS become the dominant
>web server. We also all know how that *didn't* work.  The Apache
>  
>
Are you sure about that Dustin?  Yes we in the open source community 
like to recount the statistics from netcraft, but here are two things to 
refute that:

1. Netcraft counts based on domains, not actual percentage of servers 
publicly available.
2. Walk into most businesses and you will find their web servers run 
windows.  Many times because they bought a web solution from an ISV, and 
they built it on a windows environment.

I want to show OSS winning, but not with skewed statistics.

Mike