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http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2010/08/11/august-2010-web-server-survey-4.html

Developer    December 2009    Percent    January 2010    Percent    Change
Apache       112,945,968      54.90%     119,664,128     56.06%     1.16
Microsoft    53,217,620       25.87%     53,434,586      25.03%     -0.84
Google       15,849,853       7.70%      15,526,781      7.27%      -0.43
nginx        11,474,696       5.58%      11,713,607      5.49%      -0.09
lighttpd     1,258,800        0.61%     1,821,824        0.85%      0.24

I don’t doubt, however, that all of those things listed as “the buzz” are indeed “the buzz” within the microsoft community

I am not making any money on any hosting. And I am not biased was just stating my observations and clearing up bad info about asp.net.

So your clear advertisement for a Windows hosting company in your sig is purely for philanthropic reasons? I’m not sure I buy that…

It’s a simple link, no affiliate ID’s etc. I am not making any money from this hosting provider. I also used hostgator for about 7 years without any issues, so I am not biased and have used many good *nix based providers, I am simply stating that Microsoft technologies are not as bad as everyone is led to believe or is pre-programmed to say.

I am simply stating that Microsoft technologies are not as bad as everyone is led to believe or is pre-programmed to say.

Following on from this, I had a meeting about 6 months ago regarding data migration with a large UK consultancy firm who install network infrastructure for councils/schools/colleges etc. Naturally, they are pro-MS and use Windows Server 2008, SQL 2008 etc etc.

I immediately was all guns blazing about Open Source giving it the usual - why aren’t you using Open Source Linux stuff for imaging, security such as PacketFence, mail server instead of Exchange etc and his argument was very simple.

He respected everything I said and said yes if it was up to him he’d consider using Open Source stuff and said that some of the stuff Linux developers come up with is very very cool - but it comes down to support. If something goes wrong with a Microsoft product like a bug is found in SQL Server, they are responsible to fix it. The licenses cost money and therefore the writer of the product is obliged to rectify it.

With Linux on the other hand, no one is obliged to fix it or come to your premises to perform onsite repair/replace hardware etc etc. And in some cases you need to wait for the developers/contributors of the project to release fixes to the software. Being a large large company they obviously can’t afford to take those risks. Especially with an industry such as education as most network managers are MCSE or equivalent trained and don’t have much or any experience maintaining Linux servers etc.

That and what does Linux have that can drop in and replace exchange and active directory? Same goes for SQL server. Mysql is good but it’s not quite on par with mssql. Postgre is nice but I have never met anyone who uses her. With the above said Linux is a beast for security appliances. The last company I worked for I got them to use endian firewall, absolutely beautiful product never 1 hiccup or burp out of it. The old Microsoft ISA server I can’t say the same :(

Yeah exactly. I’m sure there are LDAP equivalents etc out there, but not a hope in hell of expecting Windows XP/Vista/7 clients working as members of a “Linux Domain” with Group Policy, AD, Exchange etc and all the proper NTFS/Samba permissions to shares. People have got to grant that the technologies such as AD and Exchange are very, very clever.

They do have it tied down to a tee. You can’t expect users at say a high school (as per my example) such as 12-18 year old kids to be using a Linux client? There is no point educating them to use something that a small minority of users and employers use. Windows has to be the way forward in THIS environment, at least.

Although we have gone quite a way off topic now!