According to Netcraft's most recent surveys, since the launch of Windows 2000 the number of sites deploying it has tripled from 20,000 to more than 65,000..

— Microsoft, 26th April 2000

According to research firm Netcraft, 29 percent of all public Web servers run on Linux, making Linux the most popular operating system for public Web sites.

— Stockmaster, 25th April 2000

[Netcraft] reports that Apache Web Servers constitute over 60 percent of the commercial web servers in operation on the Internet..

— Stockmaster, 24th April 2000

Now, any website customer that purchases one of VeriSign's premium Secure Site or Global Site services will also receive a diagnostic check of its web server vulnerabilities. The service is being offered as part of an arrangement with Netcraft, a web server security consultancy.

— Verisign, 21st October 1999

The Queen has just become the latest and most prominent supporter of Linux... nobody even noticed the change until it was picked up by a website monitoring organisation, Netcraft.

— The Sunday Times, 18th October 1999

[Netcraft] is quoted widely in open-source circles as to the truth about the dominance of Linux.

— Infoworld, 26th July 1999

Netcraft also surveys SSL servers on the Internet, and there the numbers are very different: Microsoft's 37 percent is almost twice that of Netscape's or Stonghold's share, and Sun Web Server doesn't even make the list. Because SSL servers are more likely to be real business servers, Netcraft's survey is a telling indicator of Microsoft's presence in the market.

— ZDNet, 10th May 1999

Just two years ago the Netcraft survey counted 1 million sites on the Web, the latest survey finds that there are now over 5 million web sites.

— NUA, 20th April 1999

Every consultancy has its own estimates of Asian e-commerce revenues; all agree that they are small compared to America's but whose aren't? A more reliable guide may be the number of secure web servers in each country. Secure servers are used mainly for e-commerce, and they have certificates giving the actual country of residence, as opposed to address domains such as .uk or .fr which can often be misleading... Today Asia has nearly two-thirds as many e-commerce servers as the EU and it is gaining ground, according to Netcraft.

— The Economist, 19th April 1999

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BATH is establishing itself as a centre of technological excellence with several of the faster growing IT companies in the south. This is the encouraging finding of a survey by chartered accountants and management cousultants Deloitte and Touche. It highlights three local companies which have impressive growth rates and increasing client bases across Europe, America and beyond.

The firms, Global Software Services, Netcraft Ltd and Flare Software Systems plc are by no means household names. They are, however, at the cutting edge of Bath's economy as we go into the new millenium. This type of company, generally set up in the late 1980s or early 1990s has embraced new technologies with both hands. They recognised early on that an economic revolution was taking place on a global scale and were not afraid of it.

The fact that firms such as these choose set up in and around Bath says a lot for our city. The nature of these businesses is that there is generally no restriction on where they can locate. In many cases they can choose which part of the country they would like to be in on the grounds of lifestyle. There are, of course, other factors such as links with educational or research establishments, but in Bath's case this is not a problem.

The launch last week of a new forum in Bath for businesses, the University of Bath and local politicians, was further evidence that our city recognises that it has a lot to offer the cutting edge firms and should stand up and shout about it. The days of heavy industry in Bath when cranes dotted the horizon along the riverbank are long gone. Other traditional industries have also closed or been dramatically reduced in size. That may be sad, but its a fact. Bath needs to look to the future and tell the world what an attractive place it is to set up a business.

Global Software Services grew by 707 per cent in the three years from 1995, while Netcraft has seen a 300 per cent growth. These figures speak for themselves. These are the firms we need to attract.