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The latest Netcraft Web Server Survey is out. Microsoft IIS continues to lose ground to Apache (as a % of total active and % of total sites) — Of particular interest (to me atleast) is the stagnet growth of IIS over the past 8 months when compared to the continued growth and dominance of Apache.

The survey results can be found here: http://www.netcraft.com/survey/

IBM’s new fab — the $3.2 billion Building 323 in New York’s Hudson Valley region is all Linux based. The fab is controlled by 1,700 1ghz microprocessors and has over 600 terrabytes of online storage.

IBM tested Linux against Windows in a 3 month trial. The Linux system performed flawlessly for three months. The Windows system .. well umm.. it failed after six or seven days..

The article can be located at the ee times website..

I found a REALLY interesting page on MSNBC — Bug of the Day lists a new bug practically every weekday..

For the month of August, 7 of the 11 “bugs” are Microsoft products.

Of particular interest is the Aug 5th bug –> Outlook 2002 refuses to shut down — its not a conflict with another companies software, but a conflict with Microsoft Windows 200 and Microsoft Word..

Unfortunately this is consumer based and does not have lots of the REALLY cool buffer overflow bugs from all of Microsoft’s server products (exchange, iis, sql, etc..)

I didn’t attend LinuxWorld, but heard a few things from there that were interesting so figured I’d post them here..

Photoshop for Linux — Codeweavers, the company that created CrossOver Office (an application that allows Microsoft Office to run on a Linux machine) was showing off a beta of CrossOver Photoshop. It will be interesting to see the performance vs a native install of Photoshop.

Sun announces support for Linux — Sun announced Sun Linux — their own distribution of Linux. Perhaps this is the beginning of Solaris being phased out?

Red Hat Corporate Desktop Edition — Red Hat is aiming toward the desktop — they are creating a distribution exclusively for the desktop. While other companies have already created desktop focused distros (Lycoris, Lindows, Mandrake, etc..) it is really cool to see Red Hat, a dominate player, focusing on the desktop.

In the office front, I mentioned a few days ago that GobeProductive was going GPL .. well at LinuxWorld, there was talk about a standard XML based file format for all office suites on Linux (open office, star office, abiword, koffice, gobe, etc..) — if they are able to create a standard open file format, that would be awesome.

AMD was pushing their new 64 bit architecture (Opteron) — had several machines up and running on the show floor — will be released very soon (by the end of the year..) — Will be interesting to see how Intel responds.

Unfortunately there were no killer-linux native desktop applications on the floor. However, with the focus on easy to use desktop distros and continuing expansion in this area, it is only a matter of time before we start seeing mainstream applications ported to Linux… I would not be surprised if this time next year, you will see several mainstream apps ported to Linux.

Hurray for Microsoft — another day, another bug .. Announced at a variety of sites (Here’s a PC Magazine article ..) — essentially the SSL (secure socket layer) implimentation is wrong .. yippie!

Good thing I moved over to Mozilla a while back — doesn’t have this problem, has many more advanced features and supports W3 standards correctly.