It's probably a small number of large server farms. When one of the cybersquatter companies switched their farm from Linux/Apache to Windows/IIS, there was a notable dip from just that one farm. Of course, no one was actually running a real web site on that farm, so it had no impact on us, just on PHBs who don't know how to read statistics with a critical eye. :-) --Larry Garfield On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:24:56 -0400, Sean Robertson <seanr@ngpsoftware.com> wrote:
Any idea what's behind that? I truly can't imagine ever hosting any of my sites on Windows - in my experience it's been an unstable bloated piece of crap. I used to work for an ISP that had about half Windows servers and half Unix and we had unix servers that had uptimes of over a year, but the Windows servers were lucky if they managed to stay up for more than a month.
Tomas J. Fulopp wrote:
Whatever feelings we may have about Windows, the platform needs to stay supported if we want Drupal to thrive in the future.
As http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html shows, Apache declines dramatically in terms of server market share, and Microsoft gets stronger and stronger.
As a consequence, I think it is safe to assume that also the number of Drupal installations on Windows will be increasing...
Tomáš / Vacilando
Greg Knaddison - GVS wrote:
On 10/19/07, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <mail@webthatworks.it> wrote:
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:24:35 +0200 "Karoly Negyesi" <karoly@negyesi.net> wrote:
I think that nothing concerning postgresql or Windows can be a critical.
If you say this in no more than a year you'll have a mono DB CMS.
And?
This is a Do-ocracy. We have the system that people make and maintain. If people don't consistently step up to maintain postgresql or maintain Drupal on Windows then yes, support for those platforms will slowly degrade and should be dropped.
Greg