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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Charles Tutt who wrote (60342)8/3/2001 5:27:05 PM
From: DiViT  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 74651
 
Netcraft's July 2001 Web Survey

...Microsoft gains around five and a half per cent of Web hosts this month, and almost two per cent of active sites. Primarily this is a result of two large US installations converting from Solaris. The large free hosting company, Namezero, hosted on the Exodus network, has migrated its front-end systems to Windows 2000, as has part of the Network Solutions domain registration system. Network Solutions has moved physically from Digex to Interland [where Microsoft held a minority interest, prior to the sale to Micron] as part of the process.

These large installations had previously been masking a general decline in Solaris share on the web, which is now down four percentage points over the last year. Additionally, the Network Solutions site was by far the largest Netscape-Enterprise installation in terms of numbers of hostnames, and one would expect that Netscape-Enterprise overall share will drop towards the 2-2.5 per cent it has in the active sites analysis over the next few months.
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Full article: theregister.co.uk

re: Microsoft server gains over Sun. Probably related to all those dot bomb's having to power off their Sun servers.

Netcraft reports:
netcraft.com
mse.netcraft.com