RE: Is IIS worth the risk?

["Fisher, Don" <Dfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't usually participate in these threads, but I must ask a question
here.  If there are 100,000 OS/400 web servers verses 11 and 20 million IIS
and Apache servers, what is the total traffic handled per server?

Twenty million Apache servers handling, say, 200 million transactions per
minute (10 transactions per server per minute) would be less impressive to
me than 100,000 OS/400 web servers handling the same traffic (200
transactions per server per minute).  And yes, I realize there is probably
no standard method for measuring such (or is there?), since a "transaction"
in the web world can mean myriad things.

Nevertheless, measuring web presence by number of installed servers instead
of some kind of "transactions handled" or "amount of data transferred"
standard appears to be rather unreliable.  At least to me it does.

Donald R. Fisher, III
Project Manager
The Roomstore Furniture Company
(804) 784-7600 ext. 2124
DFisher@roomstoreeast.com

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A recent report from Netcraft estimated an IIS install base of approximately
11 million servers.  The last number I heard from IBM for OS/400 based Web
servers running was 100,000 (perhaps most of which are Intranet).  The
Apache install base was estimated at 20 million.
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