Christian Toledo wrote: > Would anyone know where I can get some numbers on market coverage for > Apache? We run an Apache 1.3 on Win32 environment (a nightmare to > support) and would like to know how popular is the Apache 2.x on Win32 > platform. Besides the warm & fuzzy feeling of recommending the superior > Apache version, I would be curious to know if the numbers indicate > Apache2.x/Win32 to be a more popular and perhaps better supported > environment. Thanx. First, the ASF no longer acknowledges Apache 1.3 whatsoever on threaded architectures. The threading support was a useful academic exercise, it certainly showed the possibility of a rational approach to MPM (multi-process module) design. So we are grateful for the patches. Heck, I invested somewhere around 1,000 hours of my own time on that support. However, it's entirely useless to continue to run Apache 1.3 on Windows or the old Novell port - unless you have an application which -cannot- be moved to Apache 2.0 or 2.2. Today, the odds of that are nill... ...perhaps you have a module that doesn't support 2.0/2.2. All odds say that the authors are gone if it was never ported to 2.0, so your hope of resolving a problem down the road are zilch. You can buy this specific level of detail from either securityspace or from netcraft, but the general adoption rate of 2.0/2.2 v.s. 1.3 should be enough to convince you. In the securityspace report, pay specific attention to what they call market theft/upgrades. The sub report (scroll to the bottom) lets you zoom in on very specific release versions. In apache 1.3, nobody turned off the version - in 2.0 and 2.2 it's very very commonplace to see "Apache" with no version. I consider the -vast- majority of 'unversioned' Apache servers are now 2.x, and the 1.3.37 numbers should support my contention. Good luck in whichever directions you move next. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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