"Q. It's been a year of big gains for Apache, which now runs more than two-thirds of the sites on the Web, according to the Netcraft Web Server Survey, erasing inroads by Microsoft during 2001. What's your take on Apache's continuing gains?
"A. I could speculate all day long as to why it's continued to grow, and I'd love to see a real survey done on it. Anecdotally, my take is that I imagine most of the growth continues to be either with the small mom-n-pop companies, or web hosting ISPs, or internationally - all places where price sensitivity is high, where the economic downturn is still causing budgets to be hurt, and there's willingness to consider an Open Source approach to solving a given problem. No doubt the security holes in IIS have continued to plague its reputation, and while there have been some noticed recently (and fixed) in Apache, they have been much less serious..."
