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Powering the Net                                                                         January 2004

Netcraft Survey indicates the top servers for 2004

Each year the company Netcraft compiles a list of statistics detailing the most popular server applications online, which are then updated each month. Compiled from responses from more than 46 million sites, the January 2004 survey has seen an increase of 87,631 more sites that participated in the December survey.

Of the sites surveyed, 48 percent had .com domains, while 6.5 percent had .uk domain names. The top results with a market share over one percent were as follows:

Net results web survey

Server

No. of sites

% market share

Apache

31,040,922

67.38%

Microsoft-IIS

9,675,504

21.00%

Netscape-Enterprise

1,495,536

3.25%

Unknown

922,090

2.00%

Zeus

752,053

1.63%

Other products such as Lotus Domino, Orion and WebStar accounted for less than five percent of servers running web sites (leaving aside the relatively high number of sites that returned 'unknown').

With a combined market share of just over 88 percent, Apache and Microsoft's Internet Information Server dominate server technology, although despite the huge amount of marketing Microsoft has poured into its software it still lags far behind Apache. The success of IIS was largely at the expense of other competitors, with once dominant applications such as Netscape and Sun. Nonetheless, for the past few months the market share of servers has largely remained static.

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