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10/01/2001 Archived Entry: "Netcraft Web Server Survey - September 2001"
It has been a very mixed month for Microsoft. Although the top line figures appear to present steady growth in adoption of Microsoft-IIS, this masks some significant events.
The impact of Code Red has resulted in around 150,000 Microsoft-IIS sites on 80,000 ip addresses disappearing from the internet, one of the most visible proponents of Microsoft technology for mass hosting has closed down, and Gartner Group has issued a strongly worded advisory, recommending that people presently running Microsoft-IIS should replace it as quickly as possible.
On the plus side, receipt of a site list from homestead.com which has over a million small sites based on NT, has more than offset the losses from Webjump, and from the empirical evidence to date it appears that people are not yet inclined to act on Gartner's advice.