[WEB4LIB] RE: Advice on Linux

[Duimovich, George]

>And yet, mind-bogglingly*, the percentage of libraries running their web 
>sites on Win32/IIS continues to climb.

Interesting. I wonder if there would be any difference in this figure
associated with libraries relying upon "in-house" IT teams vs. those with IT
services external to the library (or contracted out). The WIN platform
certainly has lots of momentum, and my guess is that some part of this
growth is simply conformity with the trend. I know many libraries just can't
keep an IT team running, so they typically / reluctantly rely upon the
services of the departmental or company IT team, rather than one specialized
for their own system needs...




-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Dowling [mailto:tdowling at ohiolink.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 10:35 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Advice on Linux


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