Microsoft's IIS Serves More High-Traffic Sites than Apache

"While the high-traffic site findings are likely to come under fire as a marketing move by or for Microsoft, Port80 officials denied the Redmond, Washington-based software giant was behind their company's survey.

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In stark contrast to statistics released by Netcraft, a survey conducted by San Diego-based Port80 Software indicates that Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) server is used by more high-traffic Web sites than the rival Apache server.

Netcraft's Web server findings, based on a survey of more than 47 million Web sites, have consistently indicated that Microsoft's IIS server garners about 20 percent of the Web server market, trailing the Apache open-source server's 67 percent."

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