Say How?

In April, Netcraft reported that over half of the exhibitor companies at the last Linux Expo in London were running Microsoft IIS Web servers (which runs on Windows 95, 98 and NT) rather than Apache or some other appropriate server on Linux. Among other interesting discrepancies, Netcraft also noticed these —

• Compaq.com was running Solaris until enough Compaq people noticed, so now compaq.com runs Tru64 UNIX.
• linux.ora.com runs Solaris
• Early adopters of Windows 2000 include:
  • linuxbeacon.com
  • linuxanswers.co.uk
  • slashdot.org.uk
  • freshmeat.org

  (Note: the last two are parody sites)

Other items —

• the microsoft.eu.org home (another parody site, at bero.exit.de/training/mcle.html) runs on Linux
• linuxsucks.org runs on Linux.
• yahoo.com runs Apache on PalmOS
• Apple's many servers run on a combination of Solaris, Linux, MacOS, Mac OSX (a BSD variant, still pre-release) and AIX. No Microsoft.
• While dell.com runs Apache on Linux, most of its other sites run IIS/4 on Windows NT4/98
• HP runs a combination of Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and NT4/98
• IBM is mostly AIX, with some Linux, NT4/98 and OS/2
• Intel is mostly running IIS/4 on NT4/98 (though the very personal pentium.net runs Apache on Linux)

Check for yourself. The "What's that site running" page at Netcraft is http://www.netcraft.com/whats/.