Apache still loses market share against Microsoft
Since a few months now we see a shift and a decreasing adoption of Apache servers and Microsoft IIS gaining market share. Does this mean people are moving from Linux boxes to Windows Servers with ISS? Or do we just have more websites running on our install base? I'm wondering how much of the IIS Servers are running on top of Windows Server 2008. Anyway the microsoft.com site are hosted on an IIS 7 platform and it run's great. I advise you to take a look at our new IIS Web platform.
Apache loses 2.8% share this month, partly through the strong growth at the major blogging systems, and partly due to 2.5 million domains on Apache expiring at trouble-free.net. Apache has around a 10% market share advantage over IIS now, which is the smallest gap between the two since IIS was launched in 1996.
Market Share for Top Servers Across All Domains August 1995 - October 2007
Top Developers
| Developer | September 2007 | Percent | October 2007 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 68,228,561 | 50.48% | 68,155,320 | 47.73% | -2.75 |
| Microsoft | 47,232,300 | 34.94% | 53,017,735 | 37.13% | 2.18 |
| 6,616,713 | 4.90% | 7,763,516 | 5.44% | 0.54 | |
| Sun | 2,212,821 | 1.64% | 2,262,019 | 1.58% | -0.05 |
| lighttpd | 1,515,963 | 1.12% | 1,541,779 | 1.08% | -0.04 |
| Developer | September 2007 | Percent | October 2007 | Percent | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache | 29,409,320 | 47.78% | 30,550,119 | 45.75% | -2.03 |
| Microsoft | 22,547,608 | 36.63% | 25,529,297 | 38.23% | 1.60 |
| 5,609,078 | 9.11% | 6,516,133 | 9.76% | 0.65 | |
| lighttpd | 245,503 | 0.40% | 265,298 | 0.40% | -0.00 |
| Sun | 190,905 | 0.31% | 169,352 | 0.25% | -0.06 |
Source: October 2007 Web Server Survey
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