Actually, Netcraft shows Compaq, Nasdaq, Disney, and The National Football League. NT4/Windows 98 users include Exxon, and Gillette.
The top developers survey shows IIS growing faster than any other surver, including Apache. Considering that MSFT is just in this game recently and this is Sun's bread and butter, things actually look to be in MSFT's corner. I posed this fact to Larry Ellison at Internet World the other day, he seems to be in denial as well. Check it out for yourself - netcraft.com
Microsoft entered the market late, but established itself quite quickly, notably aided by Microsoft SiteServer Commerce Edition which has established itself as a very popular component of ecommerce systems.
Over the last week, www.army.mil has been the most frequently queried site on our server query form. The reason has been the highly publicised decision by the US Army, made plain on the front page of their site, to ditch NT in favour of "a more secure platform", in the light of a successful attack on the site earlier in the year. Some have claimed this as a major propaganda coup for Apple, while others have pointed out that Apple itself prefers to run www.apple.com on a Solaris/Netscape-Enterprise platform, and that NT is still the overwhelmingly most common platform amongst the army.mil public web sites.
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