Quote:
Originally Posted by Terry Van Horne
Site your source please because most can be a lot... every large corporate business I've worked was Windoze. Linux is big on the net and IMO, not even the best platform using the NIX kernel (Apple does as well) but... it's not so big in the corporate headquarters of companies that can actually pay for their software. As deepsand mentions apache is being challenged by IIS.
|
Large corporations that can support in-house websites and Intranet usually do opt for Windows (easier to hire IT that can support your employees as well as Intranet, Internet, and Extranet.
From any research I've done IIS is in around the 35% market share and Apache just over the 50% mark. In the last couple of years however IIS has been increasing it's share (was down in the low 30's a couple years ago) and Apache has lost a few % points in the market.
I think where a lot of that comes from is that the majority of websites on the Net are not run by large corporations that can support their own IT departments. I know I'm getting more and more medium sized companies outsourcing their hosting and support to us in the last couple of years, as it just isn't fiscally viable for them to employ someone full time to do the work.
You are totally correct though that gone are the days when PHP was not advisable to use on IIS, and learn SQL then the minor differences between ms and my are not difficult to handle.