Does IIS 7.0 become the source of Apache?

In the server market, it can be said that the open source Apache server and Microsoft's IIS server share the market. The former accounts for 60.3% of the market share, microsoft's IIS 7.0, which is bound to the operating system for free, has a market share of 31%.

In every new version of Windows Server, the perfect Windows function must be revised to be IIS, which is even more evident in IIS 7.0.

When talking about the battle between Apache and IIS, we naturally have to deal with their respective systems. For example, Apache is part of the open-source LAMP combination. In addition, it also includes Linux, MySQL, and PHP/Perl. The popularity of Apache is naturally inseparable from the support of free Linux operating systems.

With IIS 7.0's strong support for MySQL and PHP, there is now a new combination of WIMP, namely Windows, IIS, MySQL, and PHP. The arguments about LAMP and WIMP who will have the upper hand are still difficult to determine. In fact, in addition to IIS 7.0 and Apache, the focus of the debate is naturally more about Windows and Linux.

The LAMP supporter said that Linux has lower hardware requirements, and enterprises can save software authorization costs, and the corresponding development tools are completely free of charge, in short, the cost advantage completely overwhelmed Windows.

However, people from the Microsoft camp do not seem to fully agree with this. They believe that for an enterprise, the cost should be based on the total cost of ownership (TCO). Windows operating systems are easier to use, the cost of training and maintenance is much lower than that of Linux, and the Linux Enterprise Edition also requires the cost of purchasing licenses. In addition, the cost of Linux technical support is not low.

Is IIS 7.0 an Apache excavator? It is too early to come to the conclusion, but we can be sure that Microsoft's IIS 7.0 has made great progress in satisfying the different preferences of system administrators, microsoft's IIS 7.0 development director once said that IIS 7.0 has learned a lot about the advantages of Apache. From this perspective, the author believes that it is impossible for IIS 7.0 to surpass Apache. Let's wait and see.