But what it doesn’t tell you is what progress Linux is making overall on the web . For that, you need Netcraft. And that suggests that Linux has a really big market share. Certainly, Microsoft’s Windows Server business is holding up well, judging by the profit figures. But you won’t find any small web startup using it; and you won’t find any big web company using it, except Microsoft. I once asked Google’s open source advocate, Chris Di Bona, how much it would cost Google …

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