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seems like a ridiculous waste of time for no benefit

seems like a ridiculous waste of time for no benefit

Posted Apr 13, 2006 18:57 UTC (Thu) by b7j0c (guest, #27559)
Parent article: Open Source Parking

who are these managers who determine their entire software infrastructure based on netcraft graphs? if such people exist, why do i care if they use IIS? all this demonstrates is the need for better data. show me what the top 10,000 sites by traffic are using, break down by application domain (online gaming, ecommerce, community, etc). i presume someone out there is already generating such reports.

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benefit = money for free software

Posted Apr 13, 2006 20:56 UTC (Thu) by stevenj (guest, #421) [Link]

I agree that statistics based on domain parking are bogus, but if Perens can make money running a domain-parking site via advertising, and donates that money to free-software causes, what's not to like?

seems like a ridiculous waste of time for no benefit

Posted Apr 13, 2006 23:07 UTC (Thu) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

I suppose there are managers that make infrastructure decisions based on magazine or website advertisements. And yet others do it based on recommendations from software sales people whose pay is dependant on commissions..

so choosing based on Netcraft scores would be a huge step up for those sorts of poeple. :-P

seems like a ridiculous waste of time for no benefit

Posted Apr 13, 2006 23:25 UTC (Thu) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link] (2 responses)

Well, it would be nice to persuade Netcraft to discard visibly parked domains from the figures. But until they do, their data supports a fib that Microsoft tells to managers. That fib is important enough to MS that they pay domain registrars like GoDaddy to shift parked domains and make press releases about it. And why wouldn't you want to rain on Microsoft's parade, given that it doesn't cost us anything and might even make some money for Free Software?

Thanks

Bruce

Define "fib"

Posted Apr 14, 2006 0:18 UTC (Fri) by hazelsct (guest, #3659) [Link] (1 responses)

But then weren't the old inflated Apache numbers a "fib"?

Define "fib"

Posted Apr 14, 2006 4:01 UTC (Fri) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link]

The former Apache users had a technical reason for their selection of Apache. They switched to IIS / Microsoft Server 2003 because, IMO, Microsoft paid them to do so. Certainly GoDaddy would not make a press release about a minor server switch without some sort of incentive.

So, I see a reason to name one an honest switch and another one a fraud. Notice that I am currently using Lighthttpd, not Apache, for technical reasons. I didn't give in to a temptation to change the server ID to Apache.

Bruce


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