[KwasiOwusu]

"84 refutes your point"

84 buttresses my point.

"Really? Dell actually ran more transactions than Amazon last year?"

Read what I said again will you.
The word "transactions" never made any appearance in what I said.
You just brought it up.
What I said, is, and I repeat, Dell does far more business online than Amazon.
Its not even close.
Dell has annual sales of over $40 Billion, Amazon has annual sales of $5.2 Billion.
They are not even in the same league!
And Dell is a direct sales company.

[antiRepublicrat]

84 buttresses my point.

That IIS has a low and stagnant marketshare, while Apache continues to climb?

What I said, is, and I repeat, Dell does far more business online than Amazon. Its not even close.

If we're talking about the ability of the servers to handle the sales, it only makes sense to talk transactions, not total cost, especially since the average cost per item at Dell is much higher than at Amazon.

And a HUGE chunk of Dell's 40 billion in sales is large corporate and government purchases, which aren't done online. I've been involved in many multi-million dollar purchases from Dell -- and we didn't use their web servers to order. Amazon, however, does everything onlline.

[An.American.Expatriate]

Dell has annual sales of over $40 Billion, Amazon has annual sales of $5.2 Billion. They are not even in the same league!

Not to get into the "war" per se, but comparing Dell's sales dollars with Amazon's is a bit misleading. One computer sold by Dell may cost $1k - a book from amazon maybe $30. I would EXPECT Dell's annual sales to exceed Amazon's monetarily. Do you have any stats concerning number of sales? THAT would be far more interesting from a number of transactions point of view.