Netcraft heeft de webserver survey voor de maand mei online gezet. Uit de resultaten blijkt dat het aandeel van marktleider Apache met 1,09% af nam, grotendeels omdat er 90.000 nieuwe Namezero domeinen werden gevonden die op WebLogic draaien. Het aandeel van Internet Information Server bleef vrijwel gelijk, terwijl iPlanet (Netscape Enterprise) en Zeus licht stegen. Netcraft deed ook onderzoek naar de populariteit van de verschillende Linux distributies en kwam tot de conclusie dat Red Hat veruit het grootste marktaandeel heeft:
The May survey received responses from over 15 million sites. The most significant change is the discovery of around 90,000 sites run by Namezero who offer a free domain name and hosting service. Namezero is responsible for the dramatic increase in the number of sites running on WebLogic and is hosted on a Solaris based system at Exodus.[...] Which Linux distribution wins?
A commonly asked question is whether we can distinguish the different Linux distributions and provide some insight into their relative popularity. Our operating systems detection can distinguish the Linux kernel version, but not the specific distribution. However, many of the distributions personalise the Apache server headers in some way, and an indication can be had from that. Out of almost 850,000 web sites that run Linux and provide a personalised server header RedHat dominates with a 72% share. Its nearest rival is SuSE with 10%, followed by Debian with 9%. No other distributions have more than 3%, reflecting the strenuous efforts Red Hat make to create brand identity and differentiation.
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