The Daily Background

I just stumbled across an interesting post at The Marketing Technology Blog about the apparent differences between the various presidential candidates websites. This really isn’t important, but it’s kind of interesting from a technology point of view. After a little research, the blogger discovered that most Republican presidential candidates’ web servers were running Windows and some proprietary web application, and most Democratic candidates’ web servers were running Linux and Apache (an open source web server app). Check out the following charts:

Interesting stuff. As for analysis, the blogger writes:

It’s fascinating to me that the Dems are predominantly Open Source… except for Hillary Clinton and the Republicans are predominantly Microsoft with the exception of Ron Paul, Jim Gilmore, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney.

I predict Linux will win the election.

In case anyone is curious, The Daily Background is run off a Red Hat Linux server, using Apache.

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