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January 2000 Netcraft Web Server Survey
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 09:49:57 GMT
From: Mike Prettejohn <mh...@netcraft.com>
Subject: January 2000 Netcraft Web Server Survey
The January 2000 Netcraft Web Server Survey is out;
http://www.netcraft.com/survey/
- Top placed developers with numbers of hosts responding and percentage share -
Developer January 2000 Percent Change
Apache 5521069 55.49 1.00
Microsoft 2280669 22.92 -0.91
Netscape 773163 7.77 0.18
- Top placed servers with numbers of hosts responding and percentage share -
Server January 2000 Percent Change
Apache 5521069 55.49 1.00
Microsoft-IIS 2277155 22.88 -0.90
Netscape-Enterprise 727427 7.31 0.29
Zeus 200264 2.01 -0.06
thttpd 191437 1.92 -0.15
Rapidsite 189923 1.91 0.00
CnG 103839 1.04 -0.23
WebSitePro 86323 0.87 -0.07
Stronghold 70990 0.71 -0.13
WebSTAR 66996 0.67 -0.05
Around the Net
Entrust brings anti-trust case against Verisign and Thawte
[1]Entrust has filed an anti-trust case against [2]Verisign and
[3]Thawte. Last month we reported that Verisign had conditionally
purchased Thawte from its founder for $575m, which, on our own dataset
gives Verisign over 99% of currently installed trusted third party internet
web server certificates.
However, it is not clear that having a very large market share is a
powerful barrier to entry in this market. The experience of the last
four years is that the most critical entry ticket for Certificate
Authorities is having a root certificate in the default distribution
of Microsoft Explorer, and that site owners are fairly price sensitive
when choosing amongst certificates that are widely trusted by the most
used browsers. On that analysis, a CA with its root certificate in
most commonly used browsers could gain share through low pricing and
effective marketing, and would not be precluded from the market by the
aquisition of Thawte by Verisign. Upwards of thirty Certificate
Authorities have root certificates in Explorer 5.01, while Equifax and
Entrust have coverage in older versions of Explorer through earlier
agreements with Thawte, which both Verisign and Thawte say will be
honoured.
GTE Cybertrust purchased by Baltimore
[4]Baltimore [5]announced that it has bought [6]Cybertrust from GTE
for $150m. Cybertrust has relatively good levels of trust for its
certificates in currently used browsers, but has never marketed its
third party web server certificates very energetically. It will be
interesting to see how this changes under the business's new
management, and whether it can take some market share from the
combined Verisign/Thawte operation.
The well connected get richer
Although no comprehensive formal analysis has been done, all the
indications are that at a macro level electronic commerce is
concentrating wealth in those geographical areas with the best
telecommunications infrastructure. Analysis of Netcraft datasets at
various times by analysts at the [7]Economist and the [8]OECD has
tended to show that at the country level there is a discernible
inverse corelation between telecoms costs and numbers of electronic
commerce sites per M capita. Essentially, the higher the price of
telecoms bandwidth, and the more restricted and regulated the telecoms
market in a given country, the fewer ecommerce destination sites it
will have, and the more likely ecommerce will lead to money outflows
from that country.
Of the top six countries, four [US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada]
are countries where local telephone calls are unmetered, and the
other two [Iceland, Luxembourg], have low populations that make per
capita analysis erratic.
In less competitive countries even apparently localised sites may
still be hosted overseas for convenience or tax objectives. For
example [9]www.expedia.co.uk and [10]www.amazon.co.uk are both
operated and hosted in Seattle, while [11]rapidsite.net based in Boca
Raton, Florida, is one of the largest hosters of French SSL sites.
Within countries the same principle seems to hold, with California
having far more ecommerce sites than any other US state, followed by
New York and Texas.
The moral for individuals seems to be "go where the bandwidth is
cheapest", while for governments and policy makers the rule is
"make your bandwidth the cheapest". Having a low corporation tax rate
[US, Australia] helps, too.
Windows 2000 to launch shortly
February 17th sees the official launch of Windows 2000. However, it is
already quite widely used with well over 10,000 sites already using
the new operating system. Some well known sites including
[12]www.hotbot.com, [13]www.nasdaq.com, [14]www.dell.com, are already
using Win2000, though in some cases as part of a load balancing system
including NT4 systems as well.
Win 2000 has seen enough use for the first bugs to be discovered and
this week Microsoft released the first [15]advisory and patches, a
full three weeks in advance of the launch date.
References
1. http://www.entrust.net/
2. http://www.verisign.com/
3. http://www.thawte.com/
4. http://www.baltimore.net/
5. http://www.baltimore.com/news/press/pr20000117.html
6. http://www.cybertrust.com/
7. http://www.economist.com/
8. http://www.oecd.org/dsti/sti/stat-ana/index.htm
9. http://www.netcraft.com/sslwhats/?host=www.expedia.co.uk
10. http://www.netcraft.com/sslwhats/?host=www.amazon.co.uk
11. http://www.rapidsite.net/
12. http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.hotbot.com
13. http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.nasdaq.com
14. http://www.netcraft.com/whats/?host=www.dell.com
15. http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/ms00.asp?ID=51&Parent=1
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A commercial SSL server survey is also available from Netcraft,
price pounds 1200 for a monthly updated analysis reflecting the
topology of encrypted transactions electronic commerce on the internet.
Details and sample pageset available at http://www.netcraft.com/ssl/
- - - - - - - - Commercial Internet Research from Netcraft - - - - - - - - -
Netcraft also does commercial internet research projects. These include
custom cuts on the Web Server Survey data, virtual hosting industry analysis,
corporate use of internet technology and bespoke projects. All of the data
is gathered through network exploration, not teleresearch.
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