Fans of Linux and open-source software have some unpleasant news to reckon with in their ongoing struggle to dethrone Microsoft.
The open-source Apache software continues to be the most popular server software for sending out Web pages, but Microsoft's competing product dominates in the high-end financial transaction part of that market, an ongoing Web server study from U.K. research firm Netcraft shows.
Netcraft said use of Apache slipped slightly, from 60 percent of Internet-connected servers to 59 percent between December and January. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) captured a bigger slice, rising from nearly 20 percent to just over 21 percent.
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