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Re: Apple as a server company

Author:David R. Miller
Posted:4/29/1999; 1:23:38 PM
Topic:Linux' wide open spaces
Msg #:5425 (In response to 5408)
Prev/Next:5424 / 5426

Dave,

Here is a link to a site that has made a survey of operating systems on the internet, as well as their summarized results. This seems to confirm you view that MacOS is not a large presence in the Internet serving role.

I would be interested in comments others might have as to the validity of their approach to compiling this data. I think this is described on their site.

Here is the site: http://leb.net/hzo/

Here are the summary results:

     	Domain : RIPE+.edu     
	DName  : ---------     
	Service: ftp+news+www
     	Date   : April `99


  Host OS recognized    01/99  %recog      04/99   %recog  +/-%   
---------------------  -------  ------    -------  -------  ----   
1.              Linux   287093    28.5     399748     31.3  +2.8   
2.   Windows 95/98/NT   245184    24.4     310162     24.3  -0.1   
3.      Solaris/SunOS   178350    17.7     213304     16.7  -1.0   
4.         BSD Family   150961    15.0     186385     14.6  -0.4   
5.               IRIX    52941     5.3      58112      4.6  -0.7   
6.          Mac/Apple    16170     1.6      26548      2.1  +0.5   
7.                AIX    17362     1.7      18427      1.4  -0.3   
8.               HPUX    10416     1.0      11760      0.9  -0.1   
9. Reliant Unix/Sinix    12848     1.3      10616      0.8  -0.5   
10.    Novell Netware     3656     0.4       5982      0.5  +0.1   
11.      Digital Unix     5016     0.5       5186      0.4  -0.1   
12.          SCO Unix     3787     0.4       4021      0.3  -0.1   
          -----------    -----   -----    -------    -----         
                              ++checksums   983784    97.8


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