On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Lizzy Dizzy wrote:
does anyone have any information on how much market share Squid is holding as compared to other caching product. Is there any formal statistics collected to compared how the various caching products performs. The one I found (something Caching Bake-Off by the Measurement factory) seems pretty outdated. Is there any other updated sites (at least up to 2003)?
Market share of proxy servers is very hard to estimate as the information can not be automatically discovered and instead there needs to be a manual servey done in person with a sufficient and representative subsection of the market. With Squid being a free software estimates becomes even harder as there is no official sales to base an estimate upon.
On the performance questions most vedors have very little interest in providing reliable performance data and the vendor interest for additional cache bake-offs has been low the last years. But the numbers from the last bake-off is probably still representative for most vendors who participated (where these vendors still exists).
Please note that you can not compare performance numbers across the different bake-offs as they all used different tests, each time more closely resembling what would typically be seen in real networking.
Regards Henrik
