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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
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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
