From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Dec 13 8:17:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from starburst.demon.co.uk (starburst.demon.co.uk [194.222.114.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C37A37B41C for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 08:17:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from richard@localhost) by starburst.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA19131; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:44:48 GMT From: Richard Wendland Message-Id: <200112131544.PAA19131@starburst.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Prevalence of FreeBSD and UNIX among servers To: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 15:44:46 +0000 (GMT) Cc: paul@freebsd-services.com 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 Reply-To: richard@codeburst.co.uk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message