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In article <dea-2401962132090001@sigil10.magic.ca>,
Don Andrachuk <dea@astral.magic.ca> wrote:
>
>>The Mac is Number two in the Web server market according to Apple. 
>>According to the exprts, Apple rankes 4th - behind Unix, NT, and 
>>Windows 3.x/95. 
>
>"Experts?" I'm not sure who your "experts" are, but according to the
>Sept/95 WebCrawler survey of approx. 45,000 web servers, Macs were indeed
>the #2 most popular server platform.

On the Web, September '95 was a long time ago.

At the time of the WebCrawler surve, UNIX based servers dominated.  MacOS 
based servers were a distant second.  Most of the UNIX servers were using 
free server software.  Most of the Mac servers were using 
WebStar/MacHTTP.  

Apple and Starnine have claimed that WebStar/MacHTTP 
were the most popular commercial servers based on this data, since they 
did make up a larger market share than the netscape servers (the other 
leading commercial server software).  This assumes that most of the mac 
HTTP sites had paid their shareware fees, which seems unlikely to me.

More recent numbers (www.netcraft.co.uk) have shown that netscape has been 
making inroads, along with Apache (a free UNIX web server based on the 
NCSA servers).  At the same time, NT based servers have increaced their 
overall representation.

At the same time, the Mac based servers have lost ground.

The upshot is, no matter what the MacOS current position is among web, it 
trails UNIX and is loosing ground over all while NT based servers gain share.

If someone has numbers that suggest otherwise, I would be interested in a 
reference.
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