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

By: john3322

john3322 — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:44:35 +0000

One thing I notice though, while most of those top Fortune companies use IIS, the websites they are serving are somewhat basic (except for Walmart obviously which is a top 10 merchant). Exxon, Chevron etc. pretty much only serve data with possibly a simple search. When you get to displaying product catalogs, online transactions, the heavier websites with big DB connectivity, security measures, etc. it seems that Linux is very strong, probably running Apache, IBM Http Server, etc. Sites like Ebay, Staples, Apple, Amazon probably don’t use IIS on their transaction sites. It would be interesting to see a current (2011) study of the top online retailers.

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Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:35:45 +0000

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Walmart aplications | BloomDigit — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:42:18 +0000

[...] Microsoft IIS vs Apache / Who Serves More?There has been strong speculation that Walmart is actually running Apache natively with the server signature hand edited to say “Microsoft-IIS/5.0″… [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:16:03 +0000

I see that Wal-Mart Stores have upgraded to Apache/2.2.15 since this was written. .NET is a dog that needs to be shot in my opinion. There is no place for it anymore.

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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Alternatives to Apache and PostreSQL « IST 205 — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:48:50 +0000

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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