[WEB4LIB] RE: Advice on Linux

[Thomas Dowling]

At 10:13 AM 6/4/2002, Cantona, Eric wrote:
> >Let's make it a list discussion - Linux can be very >useful to web-slinging
>librarians :)
>
>Agreed.  Apache+Linux is an unstoppable web server.  More features and
>better performance than IIS+2000 but without the tragic security and
>reliability flaws.
>
>And of course, total cost = $0.00


And yet, mind-bogglingly*, the percentage of libraries running their web 
sites on Win32/IIS continues to climb.  From the most recent Libweb crawl:

   6371 total servers:
     2555 Apache Servers (40.1%)
     2563 Microsoft Servers (40.22%)
     497 Netscape/IPlanet Servers (7.8%)
     799 Other Servers (12.54%)

IMO, that's 2563 libraries that either make bad decisions or allow bad 
decisions to be made for them.  (Then there's the 68 libraries still 
running CERN or NCSA servers, who don't make decisions at all.)


Thomas (*Low Boggle Threshold) Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu