Developer October 2000 Percent November 2000 Percent Change Apache 5567580 60.02 5770634 59.95 -0.07 Microsoft 2400814 25.88 2483691 25.80 -0.08 iPlanet 236814 2.55 247976 2.58 0.03 Around the Net Microsoft-IIS/5.1 sighted, Commerce Server released There was a first sighting of Microsoft-IIS/5.1 which is the web server for the Microsoft Whistler [1]release this month. The most significant deployment has been as part of a load balanced set of sites at [2]intel.com. However, Intel still mainly runs Microsoft-IIS/4.0 and the Whistler servers meet only a small percentage of the requests to intel.com. Also this month, [3]Microsoft Commerce Server was [4]released. Commerce Server's predecessor, SiteServer was widely adopted and is one of the key reasons for NT's widespread use as an ecommerce platform. Currently Microsoft-IIS runs just under half the sites performing encrypted transactions on the internet and is continuing to grow. DellHost launch in Europe, PSI at risk Currently, the dedicated server business is the most dynamic arena within the web services market, with market leaders such as [5]Verio, [6]Rackspace and [7]Interland typically increasing the number of machines they host by a factor of five over the last year. Arguably, the company that the market leaders fear most is Dell, which is an order of magnitude of bigger, and enjoys vertical integration economies through its position as a leading PC manufacturer. This month Dell launched in the [8]UK. Emphasising the geographical flexibility of the dedicated server market where customers rarely, if at all, visit their machines in person, dellhost.co.uk is located in