Windows vs Linux

[Mark]

Does anyone know the market share of these two operating systems in regards to servers online. I think linux is bigger but I may be wrong.

[James]

According to Netcraft the current market shares are:

Apache 68.70%
Microsoft 20.51%
Sun 2.43%
Zeus 0.74%

[Jan]

I'm surprised that the figures are that different.

[djpreshit]

I think Linux has a wider market spread.

U have to consider the fact that most of the sites we see now a days use php and MySQL.

And its a known fact that php works awesome on Linux.

Also, Cpanel / WHM / Fantastico is not available on Windows Hosting

[suzane]

If you are comparing it between linux hosting and window hosting as users perspective, I guess it should be around 80 and 20% respectively. Linux is available in open source and most secured and flexible that might be the reason it share the higher side as far as website hosting is concerned.