Hints at market share for Windows and Linux. In the wake of the attack of the Zotob worm, I saw a chart from Netcraft that tracked the uptime of Fortune 100 web servers over the previous 24 hours. Apparently there was no effect from Zotob among the Fortune 100, as the server that had the most downtime was running Sun Solaris, and that might have been taken down for maintenance. Zotob seemed to cause more trouble on the intranets of several media companies, as CNN reported on Zotob as if it were some cyber-Armageddon. As it turned out, CNN's LAN just got hit especially hard. Looking over the Netcraft chart is enlightening. In addition to uptimes and other network-related statistics, the operating system of each site is also listed. The dominant OS in the Fortune 100 is not Windows, but... Solaris. Solaris runs on 42 sites, Windows Server runs on 25 of the sites, Linux on 17, another flavor of Unix runs 5 sites, and 10 sites have an "unknown" operating system. My gu...
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