Re: Market penetration of ASP versus ASP.NET

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From: Jos (josnospambranders_at_fastmail.fm)
Date: 05/29/04 

Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 10:54:20 +0200

dotnetforfood wrote:
> I surveyed market penetration of various server-side technologies
> using Google's search facility. Results are in number of occurrences
> of each file extension:
>
> FileExt Occurrences
> ====================
> .PHP 324M
> .ASP 243M
> .CGI 171M
> .JSP 38M
> .ASPX 23M

I guess your survey overestimates PHP and ASP a little, since
Google will also return pages that mention PHP or ASP, but which are
not written in PHP or ASP.
In contrast, ASPX is only the extension, it's not the name of the
technology.

But I admit that would only change your results for about 10% at most.

> 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.

This is normal, I think, because these are mostly old applications.
It would be more interesting to see the distribution for pages created
or updated in the last year. Unfortunately, Google doesn't show
the date of the source file.

> Any other surveys available that show ASP.NET adoption (or
> abandonment, since this is also occurring)? 

-- 
Jos

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