Open Source Software Dominates the Web
The web is dominated by open source software solutions.
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Did you know that over 58% of the web is using the Apache Web
Server. This is compared to 28% for Microsoft’s IIS Web Server.
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Linux and Free BSD, both open source flavors of UNIX, are the
dominant operating system for web servers, not Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows
NT. Linux has a 34% market share for web server operating systems. Microsoft Windows
has a 23% market share (source: Linux Today: www.linuxtoday.com)
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The most widely used language for web programming is Perl, not
Microsoft’s Active Server Pages. Perl has been often referred to as the "glue"
that holds the Internet together.
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Over 60% to 80% of e-mail travels across the Internet using the
open source program, Send Mail. |
Source: E-soft inc.: www.securityspace.com
Open Source Software is Used By Some of the Largest Web Sites
Some of the most popular and most successful high traffic web sites use open
source software solutions. (source: Netcraft: www.netcraft.com)
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yahoo.com is running free BSD
(free Berkley Standard Unix) |
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amazon.com is running Linux,
the Apache Server, and the e-commerce system is written in Perl. |
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google.com (the worlds largest
search engine) is running Linux |
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altavista.com is running
Linux |
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mp3.com is running Linux and Apache |
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aol.com uses AOL server which is open
source. |
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cnn.com uses Perl |
Why do these large web sites use open source solutions? Because many open source
software solutions such as Linux and Apache are rock solid. Others such as MySQL
database, PHP and Perl programming languages have a large user community with
wide range of support.
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