The Gartner story is interesting..... Case in point: Just two months ago I attended a conference session lead by non other than Gartner. One of their major points: IIS is the one most used, and therefore that was pretty much the web server they seemed to put their support behind the most. Someone brought up Apache having the most used. The reply: it depends what your target is.... their numbers were based on usage by the Fortune # (can't remember which hundred or thousand), and that if you go to just about any web server's home page you'll be able to find stats to support their claims that they are number one in terms of most deployments. So there you have it--the whole problem here is statistics..... Anyone can find or run studies to support any position these days. It all depends on where you get your numbers and how you massage them afterward. So the clear winner.... Hmmm. Isn't it iPic (http://www-ccs.cs.umass.edu/~shri/iPic.html)? Lee Behrens <originalmessage> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Finally! Gartner says dump IIS! From: Dave Sherman <dsherman at real-time.com> Date: 22 Sep 2001 12:57:46 -0500 There are two sets of statistics for web servers. One set shows the number of domains running under each server (Apache, IIS, Netscape, etc.), and Apache wins. The other shows the number of IP addresses (because, of course, each http server may run multiple virtual domains), and again, Apache wins. I don't remember the numbers off-hand, but I know Apache is still ahead in publicly-available web servers. If IIS is running on LAN servers but is unavailable from outside the LAN (i.e., the Internet), then it really isn't worth counting anyway. </orginalmessage>