[4442] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: FW: UNIX less secure than Win95? (was Re: Septic about (Funds ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hallam-Baker)
Fri Feb 14 17:27:54 1997
From: Hallam-Baker <hallam@ai.mit.edu>
To: LEHMANNJ@saatchi.com.au (John Lehmann)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 12:57:46 -0500 (EST)
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <3303B87E@smtp.saatchi.com.au> from "John Lehmann" at Feb 14, 97 10:57:00 am
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
> >> 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.
Yes, UNIX is about 60%, NT and windows about 30% and Mac an astonishing 10%
> One interesting point made on the operating systems running servers: 8%
> were running Mac/OS. Fun! That's half the figure running NT.
> >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!?!
Its a question of direction. NT 3.5 was pretty much an extended beta-release.
It was an untried platform with only potential to recommend it. UNIX was
the only platform (apart from VMS) on which the original CERN and NCSA
servers ran. Its share of the Web market has declined from about 90% in 92
to 60%.
The server market is inevitably lead by the general computing market. If
I was buying Windows PCs for the desktop thats what I'd be buying for
file servers and I wouldn't want to make an exception for Web services.
Linux and Apache look like they will survive for some time and someone
will always be arround to give service. But the offerings of other vendors
start to look a bit dodgy.
Perhaps if Linus and Co could agree a common driver architecture with the
workstation manufacturers there might be a long term move towards LINUX
as was meant to happen with OSF/1.
Phill
