Apache Today: Lies, Damned Lies, and Microsoft-Centric Research
Jul 12, 2000, 21:06 (5 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Kevin Reichard)
"Market research is a discipline unto itself, a science that
should take into account biases and factors that could skew the
results. And, of course, market research should be free of the
taint of bias."
"Unfortunately, when the boys at ENT went out in search of
proof that IIS was the most popular Web server in the Fortune 500,
they blurred the line between market research and advocacy. In the
end, they released an article that is riddled with flaws,
inaccuracies, and misleading statements."
"Let's begin with the lead:
"The largest US corporations are bucking the trend
toward open source Web server deployments, according to an ENT
study of Fortune 500 Web sites."
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