Re: Market penetration of ASP versus ASP.NET

From: Earl (brikshoe)
Date: 05/30/04


Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 21:29:57 -0500

Even if you could assume some validity to your data, it would be more
relevant to analyze acceleration or a trending curve rather than usage.
Stats like this are what made one of our more famous Presidents remark,
"there are lies, there are damn lies, and then there are statistics".

"dotnetforfood" <dotnetforfood@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:64e12d46.0405291529.dcd49dc@posting.google.com...
> I surveyed market penetration of various server-side technologies
> using Google's search facility and posted them to the
> microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general newsgroup. Results are in
> number of occurrences of each file extension:
>
> FileExt Occurrences
> ====================
> .PHP 324M
> .ASP 243M
> .CGI 171M
> .JSP 38M
> .ASPX 23M
>
> Despite years of marketing and attempts to convert programmers, it
> appears that ASP.NET is a failure.
>
> ASP in contrast remains vibrantly present, solidly ensconced in second
> place behind PHP. After many years, ASP has more than 10 times larger
> usage than ASP.NET.
>
> Any other surveys available that show ASP.NET adoption (or
> abandonment, since this is also occurring)?



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