According to Netcraft’s latest report, the Open Source Apache web server software has continued to push down Microsoft’s web server market share. Apache now has a tiny bit less then 70% of the worlds web server market stitched up, compared to 20.45% and dropping for Microsoft’s web server offerings. Apache gained market share slightly more then what Microsoft has lost, indicating that much of Microsoft’s lost marketshare is probably going straight to Apache. The percentages don’t sound like much until you note that the survey is based on the responses of 62,286,451 sites. Also of note is that there has been an increase of 1.7 million hostnames in the last month. Microsoft doesn’t have a monopoly everywhere it seems.
