[ Thanks to SamIam for
this link. ]
“At a gathering here Tuesday of current and potential Oracle ISV
(independent software vendor) partners, Oracle Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer Larry Ellison extolled the virtues of Linux and
predicted that the open-source operating system will soon decimate
Microsoft in the battle for the data center market.“‘(Microsoft has) already been killed by one open-source
product. Slaughtered, wiped out, taken from market dominance to
irrelevance,’ Ellison said, speaking of the Apache Web server’s
displacement of Microsoft’s IIS (Internet Information Services)
technology. ‘They had a virtual monopoly on Web servers, and then
they were wiped off the face of the earth. And it’s going to happen
to them again on Linux.’“Ellison’s version of Web server history is a bit shaky, though,
according to research and services company Netcraft. The company’s
survey of Web server market share shows Apache already heading
toward a leading market position by the time IIS appeared on the
field in 1996. Although IIS is currently the No. 2 Web server
technology, behind Apache, it never gained more than a 35 percent
market share, according to Netcraft, which tracks IIS’s current
market share at about 30 percent…”