ASP.NET and IIS

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Steve Richter
>
> check out this claim by Scott Guthrie, the 30 something software exec at
> MSFT:
> http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/03/25/441074.aspx

What's really scary about this if you're Microsoft is that, assuming Guthrie
was correct at the time and five out of six of those sites were either
running ASP.NET on IIS or moving towards it, then the fact that three of the
four non-Microsoft sites don't use IIS (or in most cases, Windows) means the
trend is definitely moving away from Microsoft. 

MSN, MySpace and Hotmail all use IIS.  Well, duh, MSN and Hotmail had better
use IIS!  The only non-Microsoft site on the list is MySpace: a wildly
successful system that started in someone's garage running, of all things,
Coldfusion.  It's also, from what I read, not particularly stable, but
that's hearsay.

This is fact: the real business sites -- Google, Yahoo and eBay -- all use
something other than IIS, and in fact eBay is the only site of those three
even using Windows at all for their web serving according to Netcraft.

Throw in sites like MapQuest, C/NET, SourceForge, Wall Street Journal (which
runs on IBM HTTP Server!), Wikipedia and Travelocity, none of which use IIS.

Interestingly enough, Expedia DOES use IIS: version 5!

Joe