[ Thanks to KevinReichard for this link.
]
“I was minding my own business, checking my snail mail at the
office, when all of a sudden I was assaulted: “IIS Most Used Web
Server Among Fortune 500 Sites” slapped me upside the head like a
two-liter shot of Mountain Dew. After recovering from what I though
must have been wrong, biased marketing research, I set out to prove
ENT wrong.”
“I wrote a small Perl script that went to Fortune’s Web site,
pulled out the list of Fortune 500 companies, extracted their
“brochure site” address, and then polled that address with an HTTP
HEAD request. This returns the HTTP server string, along with some
other information. The same script then used nmap to ascertain the
operating system. After the script was finished, it compared the
results I just collected with what Netcraft had listed for both
server and operating system.”
“I set about this study with a mission: To objectively collect
data on the “brochure sites” of the Fortune 500. My secondary
objective, of course, was to disprove the ENT study. My results
were almost identical to theirs, however. If you look at the entire
Fortune 500, from General Motors all the way to ReliaStar
Financial, IIS reigns king. If you, however, look at subsets of
the Fortune 500 and the types of companies represented, the picture
is much different. Netscape Enterprise Server dominates until
the Fortune 300 is looked at as an aggragate, where both Netscape
and Microsoft share 41 percent of the market. This information was
embedded in the ENT article as well.”