[4405] in WWW Security List Archive
FW: UNIX less secure than Win95? (was Re: Septic about (Funds ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Lehmann (SSASyd))
Thu Feb 13 21:54:58 1997
From: "John Lehmann (SSASyd)" <LEHMANNJ@saatchi.com.au>
To: "'www-security'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 97 10:57:00 S
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Some guys wrote:
>There are questions as to whether the Mac is still a viable O/S with a
>user base ten times that of UNIX. I would not be optimistic about
either.
>Its somewhat ironic that despite all the anti-Bill paranoia Microsoft
>grew fat writing applications for the Mac when everyone else ignored it.
>
>
>> When you argue that UNIX has little future, you should consider what
is
>> currently being done with UNIX...at least 80% of servers on the
internet,
>
>Nope, its considerably lower and shrinking. Last I followed the figures
it
>was under 60%.
>
That seems funny... wonder where that 60% came from?
Netcraft survey of Feb, 1997:
NCSA: 9.7%
Apache: 41.12 % --- 50%
NT specific servers: 16%
Ahh... but Netscape servers return the same sig. whether they are running
on NT or Unix... so:
Netscape servers: 13%
So NT is possibly 29%? Have to ask Netscape.
Still missing 20%...
I came across YAWSS a couple of days ago. It had nice pie graphs. The
figures were largely in agreement with the above.
One interesting point made on the operating systems running servers: 8%
were running Mac/OS. Fun! That's half the figure running NT.
To requote:
>There are questions as to whether the Mac is still a viable O/S with a
>user base ten times that of UNIX. I would not be optimistic about
either.
There are questions as to whether NT is a viable web-hosting platform
with only twice the user-base running Mac/OS which has a user base of ten
times that of Unix which has a web-server base six times that of NT. I'm
confused!?!
*ducks*
--
John "I'm in advertising, I'm expected to abuse statistics" Lehmann
"Get a Macintosh. It's better for you"
