Port80 released a new set of Fortune 1000 Web technology surveys today -- including an industry-first survey on application servers and scripting engines used by the Fortune 1000. Here are the surveys and the related press release.
In the past, we have focused on the relevancy of methodology in our surveys versus Netcraft and other organizations' reviews of HTTP/Web server market share. With these new May 2005 surveys, Port80 simply put out the numbers to the pleasure of the market -- please let us know what you think of the results...
Here are some other Web technology surveys that we track here at Port80, somewhat religiously:
- Netcraft -- The gold standard for a “large fishing net” view of Web server market share -- millions and millions of sites analyzed.
- Security Space -- One of their surveys cover SSL, which makes for an unbiased view of technically more complex (and actively used) Web sites.
As we started down the path to do the new app server survey, Port80 researched other similar studies. A few links of note we came across, if you please (caveat surftor -- this is not our data, nor have we verified the results below):
- MetaGroup: WebLogic is 37% of all deployed app servers, IBM 22% (http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=9253)
- FactPoint Group: Fortune 1000 Aggressively Adopting XML Web Services, New Report Finds (http://www.factpointgroup.com/webservices/)
- Computerwire: Fortune 1000 Firms Are Cautious Over Java (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CGN/is_n168/ai_21064630)
- Network World: 25% of Fortune 1000 has bad DNS setup (http://www.networkworld.com/news/2001/0129studydns.html)
If you come across an app server survey or any good research on Web servers, HTTP etc., please add the link below to this post (share the knowledge/spin).
A final note -- we had a hard time coming up with the right way to proper categorize the application server/scripting environment/Web site engine market, and we were not the first ones to have such difficulty. Our team decided that Microsoft versus Java seemed like the most logical grouping, with PHP, ColdFusion and the rest left in separate buckets. Did we get it right here? What do you think?
Cheers,
The Port80 Team