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cost effective
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real dollar returns to build it on Linux and Apache
than was to build it on IIS and NT
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even if it meant that you have to
spend a little bit of money
:40:11
to train your staff to learn how to use that or
:40:13
to find people who were knowledgeable.
:40:15
But the good news was that
:40:16
that knowledge wasn't very expensive
:40:18
because there were all those college students out there
:40:20
who'd been using Linux for a long time
and were very familiar with it.
:40:24
If you look at the trend curves in web servers
:40:28
Apache has steadily been gaining
a market share ever since
:40:33
it's up to something like 66% now
:40:36
It's steadily clobbered
all of the closed source competition
:40:39
And that's because it's more reliable
it's more flexible, it's more extensible
:40:45
It does what webmasters actually need
:40:49
and the combination of Apache and Linux
:40:52
found its way into a great many commercial shops.
:40:56
Essentially, Apache became the application
that motivated Internet service providers
:41:02
and e-commerce companies to choose Linux
over Microsoft's Windows.
:41:08
It would probably runs best on Linux and on FreeBSD
:41:12
and the reason is the
communities around those operating systems
:41:16
are also the communities that
contribute the most back to Apache, right?
:41:21
And there were also the operating systems
that Internet service providers
:41:26
started using very heavily as well
:41:29
and Internet service providers really liked Apache
:41:32
because it allowed them to do
:41:34
a lot of different things
that some of the commercial web servers didn't
:41:38
such as the ability to host more than
one web site on a single box, which clearly
:41:43
if you are an ISP and you would have 40,000 users
:41:46
and they all want their web site,
:41:47
is gonna be pretty important to you.
:41:51
one of the key factors in the growth of Linux was
:41:54
the creation of companies that
specialized in the distribution
:41:57
and support of the Operating System itself