p2pnet news | open source:- Microsoft is apparently making a substantial incursion into territory open source Apache used to call its own.

“In the August 2007 survey we received responses from 127,961,479 sites, an increase of 2.3 million sites from last month,” says Netcraft.

“Microsoft continues to increase its web server market share, adding 2.6 million sites this month as Apache loses 991K hostnames. As a result, Windows improves its market share by 1.4% to 34.2%, while Apache slips by 1.7% to 48.4%.”

Apache has been Number One in web server software since the March 1996 Netcraft Web Server Survey, to the company, continuing:

In November 2005, Apache was found on 71 percent of web sites, putting it more than 50 percentage points ahead of Microsoft IIS (20.2 percent). At the time, Apache’s market share advantage seemed insurmountable.

But less than two years later, Microsoft has narrowed that 50 percent gap to 16.7 percent.

And the situation is even tighter in active sites where Apache leads Microsoft by 12.2% says Netcraft.

But not to worry.

“Apache’s lead remains substantial in both categories. It’s worth noting that Apache has lost market share to another open source server, lighttpd (1.2% of all sites), and Google (4.4%) as well as Windows,” its says, although, “if Microsoft continues to gain share at its current pace, it could close the gap on Apache sometime in 2008.”

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Also See:
Netcraft – August 2007 Web Server Survey, August 6, 2007

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