Earlier today I read a post about Ron Paul’s website. Interestingly, his site is less of a typical candidate site and more of a mashup of other sources of information about him. What a fantastic idea and it shows additional transparency. That got me even more curious, what was the site developed on?
According to Netcraft, Ron Paul’s site was previously run on Microsoft IIS but as of June 5th it’s now on Apache!
So that got me wondering… what are the other candidates’ sites running? Does this provide some insight into their overall candidacy?
Site Operating System and Server by Candidate
- Joe Biden (Democrat) – Linux, Zope by Interlix
- Hillary Clinton (Democrat) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Paul Holcomb
- Christopher Dodd (Democrat) – FreeBSD, Apache by pair Networks
- John Edwards (Democrat) – Linux, Apache by Plus Three
- Mike Gravel (Democrat) – Linux, Apache by Voxel Dot Net, Inc.
- Dennis Kucinich (Democrat) – Linux, Apache by New Age Consulting
- Barack Obama (Democrat) – FreeBSD, Apache by pair Networks
- Bill Richardson (Democrat) – Linux, Zope by Interlix
- Wesley Clark (Democrat) – Linux, Apache by Voxel Dot Net, Inc.
- Al Gore (Democrat) – Linux, Apache by Rackspace
- Sam Brownback (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by RackForce Hosting, Inc.
- Jim Gilmore (Republican) – Linux, Apache by 1&1 Internet, Inc.
- Rudy Giuliani (Republican) – Linux, Apache by RackSpace
- Mike Huckabee (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by LNH Inc.
- Duncun Hunter (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Individual
- John McCain (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Smartech Corporation
- Ron Paul (Republican) – Linux, Apache by Rackspace
- Mitt Romney (Republican) – Linux, Apache by Rackspace
- Tom Tancredo (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Interland
- Fred Thompson (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by LNH Inc.
- Tommy Thompson (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Time Warner Telecom, Inc.
- Chuck Hagel (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Individual
- Newt Gingrich (Republican) – Windows Server 2003, Microsoft-IIS/6.0 by Smartech Corporation
Here’s the overall breakdown, pretty interesting results:
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.
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I predict you’re wrong. I see one of three people winning, Clinton, Fred Thompson, or Gingrich. The Obama stuff just can’t stand in the backwoods of many states, ‘ole JR isn’t going to vote for him.
So that leaves the three I listed, all Windows folks. What I find funny is that the two Republican guys I listed haven’t even declared yet.
I hope you’re wrong on 2 of those 4 predictions, ck. I don’t want to tell you which 2, though! I like being independent and complaining about all of them equally.
😉
I hope they come up with a simple chart detailing all of the candidates and what their stances on each of the major issues are. It is a bit of a pain going through to each website and reading everything. I like a few of the candidates, but each one has a stance on one or two of the issues that I really don’t like.
Adam,
I’m not sure it would ever be the goal of any political candidate to make it easier to find their stance.
🙂
Doug
I know the candidates would never do it, but it might make a useful Wikipedia page.
Adam,
That’s a fantastic idea. I can’t imagine all the attention a page like that would get. Wikivote!
I noticed the Wikipedia pages for the Candidates right now are changing non-stop. There is a collective article on the 2008 elections there, too. There are links to each of their Wikipedia pages as well as their official campaign sites.
Doug
http://www.ontheissues.org has a voting history and policy stance of every candidate in the running for the 2008 election, as well as every Senator and Representative.
There’s also this site to see whom you most closely align with: http://www.selectsmart.com/president/2008.html
Very interesting. I wonder how much attention their campaigns paid to the actual platform on which their site operates.
It would be very interesting to see if candidates have received political donations from companies such as Microsoft, Red Hat, etc.
I wonder the same thing, Matt. Especially since many of the candidates switched platforms – I’m curious what the driver was to make the switch.
Yet another reason to vote Democrat!
wow.. digged!
Given McCain’s support for Steve Ballmer it’s not much of a shock he’s running Windows.
Also, if you’re going to include Al Gore and Fred Thompson, then how can you forget Al Sharpton – Windows 2000, NeoSpire Inc
Perhaps he should upgrade 🙂
The candidate don’t care what is Windows, Linux or FreeBSD 😛
Forget the democrats! Greens want open-source voting software!
interesting observation… thanks for sharing this with us
23 is a tiny, meaningless sample size, and it’s silly to draw any conclusions from this. Now if you include, say, all of the US Senators and Congressmen, that could be interesting.
In the last election the owner of XMission (a local isp) ran for senate. He’s been a long time supporter of Linux. We have a hotly contested mayoral election in Salt Lake City this year. He asked each candidate to answer a survey that he then posted on his blog. One of the questions pointed out that each candidate had endorsed buying local. He then asked where their website was hosted. It was interesting to read some of the candidates trying to dodge the question. Soon they’ll hopefully come to realize that these things can really matter.
Hillary is not MS-only, http://connect.hillaryclinton.com/ runs on Java.
ROFL, the most stupid comparison ever! Very funny, keep going!:) At least I hope it was a joke ….
Dude,
What are you trying to do ?
I hope you realize you have symbolically painted a target on yourself by doing this.
I found the article rather amusing and actually interesting since you have put an entirely new twist to the election debate.
As mentioned by the previous poster, I hope it was more done in jest ….
Quick! Get this man a sense of humor!
Seriously! I guess I’ve derailed all of American politics by revealing this information. 🙂
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I don’t know about USA but in Russia I think Linux will be national operating system because of free.
I don?t know about USA but in Russia I think Linux will be national operating system because of free.
I can agree with following opinion !! It is free and very well protected !
Regards
Lucas
Don’t forget 1 of the 1st things the Bush administration did after getting into office was to essentially railroad through a settlement of the anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft. Last I heard Mass. was still suing MS, but the other states settled… Funny how we don’t seem to have heard anything for a long time…
That makes for some useful information, though I hope nobody bases their vote simply on the OS of a candidate’s server.
I think Linux is the OS of the future. But it’s still a little bit hard in use. I’ll surely move to Linux when it become as easy in use as Windows do.
Movie Girl, Linux already have good user interface and it is very easy to use it.
Very nice article. People must vote for Linux users. 🙂
Very interesting post and discussion.
FYI: I’ve adapted and updated the info and posted tables at Presidential Candidates’ Web Site Types.
Nice article thx a lot 🙂 Very interesting
Hi Doug,
I found a related article on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog,
comparing page loads of the remaining candidates.
Barack is my boy. FreeBSD, I’m impressed. I love that the democrats are on the opensource bandwagon.
WOW, very intresting article you posted.
I will vote for Linux user 🙂
Just goes to show that Hillary really was a closet Republican after all… 😉