Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:44:46 +0000 (GMT) From: Richard Wendland <richard@starburst.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: paul@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: Prevalence of FreeBSD and UNIX among servers Message-ID: <200112131544.PAA19131@starburst.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <135510000.1007492189_lobster.originative.co.uk@ns.sol.net> from "paul@freebsd-services.com" at Dec 04, 2001 07:07:43 PM
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> The Netcraft web server survey provides useful, real world information on
> this subject.
Yes, research on OS share for the public web servers is available at:
http://www.netcraft.com/survey/index-200109.html#computers
This shows *BSD at ~6% of computers running public webservers, a little
behind Solaris (~7%), and well behind Linux (~30%) and Windows (~50%).
It does place *BSD ahead of the sum of commercial Unix other than Solaris,
so this is a significant share.
But note the limitations of this research, primarily:
- only counts public web servers found by Netcraft, eg excludes Intranet
- only counts one computer per load balanced website
- methodology error margin of +- 10%
Also note that this survey is counting boxes regardless of value.
Sun could reasonably point out that this research counts a cheap PC box
serving a minor website the same as a $1M E10K system serving multiple
busy websites. So this research does not reflect monetary investment.
--
Richard Wendland richard@netcraft.com
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