Comments on: Microsoft IIS vs Apache / Who Serves More?

By: Sylwester w Górach

Sylwester w Górach — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:32:31 +0000

i wonder how about todays statistics i know that Apacha is better but just to see how muth peaple work on IIS

By: Sony KDL32XBR9

Sony KDL32XBR9 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:33:22 +0000

I admire the free software enterprise because i, for one, benefit from it, but i just cant imagine going to work for free.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:14:24 +0000

I’ve been in Windows server administration about 8 years, the last 3 of which for a web host. We started running Windows 2003 with IIS 6.0 since its inception early 2003. Due to the nature of what is required of me.

By: Canon ZR960

Canon ZR960 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:21:19 +0000

Apache is free and cheap companies and start-up will use apache. I fall in that category so i hope no one even tries bashing on this.

By: Canon zr960

Canon zr960 — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:43:09 +0000

I am not surprised at all that most of the fortune 500 companies are using MS. However, I’m a little surprised that HP isn’t using MS.

By: Raul

Raul — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:48:35 +0000

Seems logical that those who offer Internet services are not using IIS just because it is a relatively new product and they are working on this issue for quite some.
It’s cool to see people affirming that the Fortune 500 CEOs are outdated and unable to recognize the benefits of a product to explain a reality that they do not like.

By: Ahmed Samir

Ahmed Samir — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:51:21 +0000

Apache is 49.49 % and Microsoft IIS is 35.57 % in the wold

In the July 2008 survey we received responses from 175,480,931 sites.
The web has grown by 3.14 million sites over the past month,
2.2 million for Apache web servers and 1.4 million for Microsoft IIS

read

http://www.asamir.net/archives/apache-vs-iis-in-july-2008.html

By: Michel Bakker

Michel Bakker — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:49:54 +0000

Doesn’t surprise me either. Microsoft has been very low with in internet market. But I surely see this as growing, since it is IIS 6.0 we are talking mostly about, not a very old version.

The number of vacancies concerning .NET Development has to do with the growth of the .NET platform. It has rapidly become one of the most popular platform because of it’s rapid maturing and the possibilities it gives on Enterprise level.
Probably also because (FREE OS == CHEAPER) isn’t true.

ASP .NET can not be hosted on Apache (considering most sensible options).

I think the IIS chart will grow in the next years. Companies are ALWAYS STUCK with the OS, even with Linux. Changing always costs a lot of money.

By: emmanuel

emmanuel — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:55:45 +0000

I guess you forgot to mention that apache is free and cheap companies and start-up will use apache. I fall in that category so i hope no one even tries bashing on this. With that said, i admire the free software enterprise because i, for one, benefit from it, but i just cant imagine going to work for free. Can you? May be if you can answer that, then this free vrs IIS will be settled deep in our thoughts.

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By: Ionel Roiban

Ionel Roiban — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:58:45 +0000

There has been strong speculation that Walmart is actually running Apache natively with the server signature hand edited to say “Microsoft-IIS/5.0″

Netcraft writes this:

“Webservers that operate behind a caching system, load balancer, reverse proxy server or a firewall may sometimes report the operating system of the intermediate machine. Hence reports of ‘Microsoft/IIS on Linux’ may indicate that either the web server is behind a Linux server that is acting as a reverse proxy, or has configured the Akamai caching system such that the first request to the site goes to one of Akamai’s servers [which run Linux], or as in the case of http://www.walmart.com has been configured to send a misleading signature.”

-source: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/accuracy.html#impossible

By: josh

josh — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:32:00 +0000

many fortune 500 companies are run by older gentleman in there 50’s and 60’s and as we all know that age group is kind of technology dumb and affraid of change thier theories are ussualy if its not broke dont fix it,apache is no doubt a much superior system in my mind and most companies that have grown up in the technology boom years are used to seeking out newer better technologies thus in the younger age group i would think you would find that most companies would use apache in an overwelming number, no offense i respect older people but my grandpa still uses a 1960 toaster and is in no way inclined to replace it lol.even though it toast slower and occasionaly burns the bread slightly its not gonna get replaced because it still makes good toast 70 percent of the time a lot of those older ceo’s on fortune 500 companies do not even use computers,they have others that perform that work for them unfortunatly those ceo’s are the same ones purchasing the web contracts.i highly doubt theyd change thier whole systems without being able to comprhend the explanation of the differances.they know they have a system that works ad if they change it and it fails they also know theyd lose thier big fat bloated paychecks.no offense to microsoft intended but they cant even make a secure browser that performs well much less a server network,only thing microsoft did was develop tthe technology first well thier dinasours now its time to crawl in the tarpit and die i would think the poll that shows internet companies ovrwelmingly choose apache also shows somthing more.if the companys e-smart and educated it goes with apache who do you think knows more about internet aplications walmart a clothes store or e-bay a company born and raised on the internet internet smart people overwelmingly choose apache systems.you factor that in with the fact that everything microsoft releases has millions of security holes and needs further developement and testing example internet explorer and their gee wiz piece of crap new vista system that people are dumping by the millions to go back to xp then you realise that firefox allthough not preinstalled on any computer sold is the prefered browser of 53 percet of the worlds computers and it is a browser that has to be installed not standard equipment.i think the message to microsoft is clear sorry mr gates but windows is your only product left thats superior.and a lot find that point debatable.as the younger people grow up and become ceo’s of these companies microsofts market share has declined steadily in the webserver game and eventualy will bottom out much as the sale of cotton candy has dropped steadily since the 1904 worlds fair.in 50 years people wont even know what a microsoft server was.theyl think its a tennis practice machine.

By: stybba

stybba — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:24:43 +0000

“Big business conspiracy theory” gets pretty weak once you start to live with the issues that ever-larger organizations face. (In my experience, there is simply too much organizational chaos for any kind of conspiracy to thrive). The bizarre idea that LAMP lowers TCO to ‘just the cost of the hardware’ suggests what, that the resources work for free? In a start up maybe you do… In a model where the core business transaction is NOT an online credit card sale, and multi-billion$ of assets are at play over decades, there are many more things to consider. Google ‘collaboration platform’ and see the difference between a php site (no matter how fast you develop it) and corporate computing concerns. I respectfully suggest that drawing conclusions based on choice of web server is kind of a narrow tech head pre-occupation, not a business exercise; and inferring elaborate big business cabals from the same data is fanboy stuff.

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By: zoid

zoid — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:00:39 +0000

I don’t surprise either. I am also using MS IIS to host my ASP.NET blog.