From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 18 12:33: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu (mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu [136.142.186.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D0CF37B424 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 12:33:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfg1+@pitt.edu) Received: from box027.labs.pitt.edu ("port 4852"@[130.49.141.38]) by pitt.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #41462) with ESMTP id <01K3PQ2C4UQW012JQ8@mb2i0.ns.pitt.edu> for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 18 May 2001 15:32:51 EDT Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 15:32:48 -0400 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Subject: Re: IIS vs Apache In-reply-to: <20010518175955.A94216@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Originator-info: login-id=pfg1; server=imap.pitt.edu To: j mckitrick , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <2357490475.990199968@box027.labs.pitt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.3 (Win32) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --On Friday, May 18, 2001 5:59 PM +0100 j mckitrick wrote:r > > I just saw a quote: > > But as Giga analyst Stacey Quandt noted, even the fastest, cheapest > and best browser may not win. > > "Sometimes, the best technologies don't win out. Microsoft's IIS > (Internet Information Server) is faster > than Apache, but Apache has the greatest market share, for example." > > Are there any stats to back this up, that anyone knows of? > The statement is very confusing, are they comparing webservers or OS+webservers?? Is"best technology" here, Windows NT? If we are comparing Apache on Windows NT, surely IIS does better. On FreeBSD or Linux IIS doesn't perfom at all...so well...I guess there's no doubt what technology to compare there :). Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message