Laugh yourself silly...

["Eric M. Bennett" <ericb@pobox.com>]

...at some of the results from GVU's latest web user survey, as quoted on
one of Apple's web pages:

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Web server software

It is official: the results of the 6th WWW Survey by
GVU show that WebSTAR/MacHTTP beats Netscape and Apache as the webserver
software of choice for the respondents. More than 36% of the respondents
use WebSTAR or its shareware version MacHTTP versus 31% for Netscape
(including their free servers for education etc.) and Apache's 21%.

As far
as operating systems are concerned the Mac OS came in second (25%) after
Windows 95 (42%). 
=====


This is so silly that I wonder if it's at all possible to get an accurate
count of web servers out there.  I imagine that the Netcraft survey, which
gives Apache a 40% share of the market and Apache+NCSA combined over 50%,
is over-counting a fair number of hosts since they appear to go by host
name rather than IP address (one machine hosting www.companyA.com and
www.companyB.com and wwww.companyC.com would be counted three times, since
they do their survey by polling individual host names to see what httpd
they are running).

Oh, and BTW, Netcraft puts WebSTAR/MacHTTP's share at 3.6%.  Yes,
three-point-six, not thirty-six.  :-)

"Get your statistics first, and then you may distort them as you please."



--
Eric Bennett ( ericb@pobox.com ; http://www.pobox.com/~ericb )

We had to degrade [the new shots] a little bit in terms of the resolution.
Most of the [new] shots that we're talking about, which are the space
battle shots at the end of the movie, were actually done on a Macintosh.  -
George Lucas on the remaking of Star Wars


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