dang. maybe this really is the year of open source/linux/gnu/free softare/apple/anyone-but-microsoft. . . looks like this year the open source software that serves most of the worlds' web pages, apache, kicked the nuts off of microsft's IIS server by a huge margin: "Since October 2002 market share has grown from 53% to 64%, a 20% gain while Microsoft IIS, its nearest competitor has shrunk from 36% to 24%, a 33% decline. The change in server totals was even more dramatic. Apache HTTP Server increased from about 20 million to 32 million (+60%) while all other competitors remained flat."