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To: Justin Banks who wrote (22238)	12/19/1998 1:28:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>> Where'd you get your numbers? No place reliable. A newspaper, I think. Further research shows the numbers to be slightly out of date, as you suspected. I would say that 1.5 million figure might have been 4 months old. netcraft.co.uk has some great stats, well presented. Very interesting details on MSFTs major site use of other systems: netcraft.co.uk In that graph, everyone except MSFT and Apache are losing market share. MSFT looks nearly flatlined for 1998, and Apache is eating share like PacMan. (Bottom graph.) Probably most of these Apache installations are on Linux, a few Linux installs have Netscape, maybe all thats a wash to 2 significant digits. At this point, 12/98, linux/apache would appear to have 1.98 million web sites, 54%. MSFT would be second, with .87 million and 24% share. This is just one survey company. They say they retrieve all the domain names in a DNS and check server type, which should be pretty exhaustive. Save these links, they are pretty good ones. Cheers, Chaz