eWeek Labs has a story on the major improvements Apache 2.0, the next generation of the world's most popular web server, has made on an unlike platform - Windows. “Apache 2.035 and IIS 5.0 were installed on Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Given the fact that IIS is essentially the benchmark for performance on Windows servers, Apache 2.0's ability to match it is very significant. These results can be attributed to the improved design and native Windows code for Apache 2.0. “
At first glance the fact that Apache 2.0 didn't improve performance on Linux may seem to be a disappointment. But the performance results are still excellent.