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To: Joe NYC who wrote (103879)	10/28/2003 11:17:55 AM
From: TGPTNDR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Joe, Re: < From what I read, all of the market share that Linux gained was from weak Unix competitors. As far as web servers out there, the beginning of competition did not have Microsoft at 100% and Linux at 0%.> LOL. The beginning of competition had Unix at 98% on BIG IRON, everything else at 2%. NT(and it's successors.) looked good. Ran on cheap hardware and didn't cost much. (You'll notice they've about given up on trying to make it run on any expensive hardware other than IA64.) Around this mid-1995 timeframe, the microsoft.com Web servers were migrated to a pre-release version of microsoft Internet Information Server (iis) because the EMWACS servers were straining to keep up with the burgeoning server loads. How much web presence would you guess Linux/Apache had in '95? -tgp