[ale] OT: Gartner: drop IIS

Geoffrey esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
Wed Oct 3 19:59:51 EDT 2001


"Eichler, Paula J." wrote:
> 
> Question:  Microsoft defenders in these types of articles like to say the
> the problem is that hackers attack IIS because it is so popular.  Maybe I
> misread something, but isn't Apache installed on more web servers than any
> other?  That would pretty much negate that argument, n'est pas?  Unless they
> are counting the "web servers" that are installed inadvertantly with other
> applications ...pj

According to http://www.netcraft.com/survey/ Apache carries 60% of the
market, with IIS a distant second at 27%.  So you are correct, Apache is
much more abundant.

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