[LINK] Fwd: Re: Fwd: September 2001 Netcraft Web Server Survey (humour)

[Adam Todd]

I thought I'd share this with linkers.  I'm still laughing :)

If requested I'll post this months Netcraft survey results.

>Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 19:21:48 +1000
>From: John Allan - Lists <johna-lists@tassie.net.au>
>Subject: Re: Fwd: September 2001 Netcraft Web Server Survey (humour)
>
>Press Release
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>Microsoft Web Servers Dominate The Web
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>The dodgy.NET crew today released their analysis of the latest Netcraft 
>survey.  Dodgy.NET chief analyst, John Allan, was quoted today praising 
>Microsoft's Windows 2000(tm) and Internet Information Server(tm) products, 
>producing some extrapolated figures which really do prove that Microsoft's 
>systems do dominate the content-hosting and web application server hosting 
>market:
>
>98.7% of security incidents in the September 2001 period were attributed 
>to Microsoft-based servers.  This means that only
>
>36.9% of all Microsoft IIS servers were compromised in the three months 
>leading up to September 2001.  This means that 36.9% of Internet Server 
>administrators had not been reading their twice-daily emails explaining of 
>new holes found in Microsoft products, and had not been acting on this 
>advice.  We have also concluded that most of these systems were run by my 
>grandmother who can only just use Outlook Express, but configuring and 
>securing a Microsoft WIndows server is so easy, even she can do it!
>
>93.7% of net operating system cost in the web server market was attributed 
>to the purchase of Microsoft Operating systems.  The remaining share goes 
>to Solaris.  These figures conclude that nobody buys Free-Unix operating 
>systems, such as FreeBSD, NetBSD and Linux, hence the further deployment 
>of these operating systems is near-zero.
>
>98.7% of system administrator overhead time was spent on Microsoft 
>Servers.  This means that no other servers exist and hence do not need to 
>be mentioned.  Most of this was spent installing the daily bombardment of 
>patches.
>
>The number of individual Microsoft servers out there on the Internet 
>outweighs the number of non-Microsoft servers, as compared to hosts and 
>Virtual Hosts.  This can be attributed to the fact that Microsoft servers 
>work best with a 1:1 site/user to machine ratio.  This eclipses the bulk 
>of Apache servers which often run thousands of web sites off one machine, 
>meaning that Microsoft has also won in terms of operating system installs 
>on new hardware systems.
>
>Allan continued, "we should all be happy with Microsoft products.  If 
>we're not, we can ring up their helpline if our credit card has enough 
>credit available.  Preferably take out a Platinum or Gold card with a 
>major merchant bank in Switzerland".
>
>Dodgy.NET deputy analyst Justaan Oswald was quoted today as saying "look, 
>if you can't do it with .NET then you can't do it".
>
>[ ps - no part of the above is to be taken seriously ]
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>>Now this is a good read!
>>>         Microsoft     8146372   26.47         8895343   27.46   0.99
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>>>          Microsoft     3356363   28.29         3905978   30.00   1.71
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