Popular Web client and server programs

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Skills: none

IT concepts: open source, Web client (browser), Web server

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• Internet concepts– Applications– Technology– Implications

• Internet skills– Application development– Content creation

The most popular Web server programs

Proprietary Open source

Which do you think is most popular?

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Apache IIS Others

Market share, March 2010 -- open source rules

Source: Netcraft

Popular web client programs

Can you identify them?

Popular web client programs

Opera, Opera Software

Chrome, Google

Safari, Apple

Firefox, Mozilla Foundation

Internet Explorer, Microsoft

Web client and Web browser are synonyms.

Web client market shares, March 2010

Which client has the largest share? The second largest?

Client Market share

Internet Explorer 55.57%

Firefox 28.21%

Chrome 6.82%

Safari 6.14%

Opera 1.65%

Web client market share, March 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Chrome is nearly 7% after only 18 months.

Opensource

http://www.netmarketshare.com/

Web client market share trend

Google automates upgrades.

Microsoft does not.

Which version is installed?

Popular Web client and server programs

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

Skills: none

IT concepts: open source, Web client (browser), Web server