The Apache Web server upped its market share yet again, crossing the 70 percent threshold last month, according to research firm Netcraft`s (netcraft.com) November Web server survey.

Apache extended its share from 69.89 to 70.98 percent. Microsoft dropped from 20.55 to 20.24 percent. Sun and Zeus One lost 0.02 and 0.01 percentage points respectively.
 
Netcraft`s survey measures Web server software use on all Internet connected computers. The November survey received responses from 74,572,794 sites, marking an increase of 181,000 hostnames over last month. It was the smallest monthly increase since January 2004.
 
According to Netcraft, the small increase can be attributed to France`s enom allowing 810,000 .info names hosted on Windows Server 2003 to expire. In September 2004, an enom affiliate registered one million .info domains in a week and offered them to customers owning similar names in .com.

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London, 18 October, 2005, TeleCity (LSE:TCY.L), the leading European colocation, data centre and managed services company, today announced that BT has selected its core infrastructure services and fibre connectivity to help facilitate broadcasting of the 2006 Winter Olympics, which takes place in Turin, Italy from 10–26 February next year.
 
BT is providing European connectivity to cover the XXth Olympic Winter Games.  In the run up to and duration of the Games, TeleCity will provide fibre connectivity between BT servers and Telecom Italia’s network in its Harbour Exchange data centre in London. 
 
Martin Maters, general manager data transport services, BT Global Services, said: “TeleCity offered us the most appropriate data centre environment and infrastructure for this particular event.  Their carrier-neutral services demonstrate consistently high levels of performance, which is imperative for an event of this magnitude.”
 
Rick Hudson, Chief Executive of TeleCity, said: “TeleCity services continue to be at the heart of networked and streamed broadcast services. We are delighted to be associated with enabling such a prestigious, global event.”
 
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About TeleCity
TeleCity is a leading European data centre and managed services company. Through its network of carrier-neutral data centres, it provides colocation, IT infrastructure management and IT services to communication service providers, corporate enterprises and the public sector.  The company has 9 locations across Europe, in Amsterdam, Dublin, London, Manchester, Frankfurt, Paris and Stockholm.  Headquartered in London, TeleCity was established in 1998, and posted a turnover of £25.8M in the year to December 2004. www.telecity.com

 
About BT
BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions serving customers in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific.  Its principal activities include networked IT services, local, national and international telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband and internet products and services.
 
BT consists principally of three lines of business:
 
   ° BT Retail, providing a comprehensive range of communications and related services to more than 20m UK consumers and businesses.

   ° BT Wholesale, providing network services and solutions within the UK to more than 600 fixed and mobile operators and service providers including the provision of broadband and private circuits.

   ° BT Global Services, providing networked IT services to meet the needs of multi-site organisations globally.  BT Global Services operates in more than 130 countries and also offers international carrier services.

In the year ended 31 March 2005, BT Group’s turnover was £18,623 million with profit before goodwill amortisation, exceptional items and taxation of £2,085 million.
 
BT Group plc is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York. British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group.  For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt
 
For further details, please contact:
 
Sally Bratton,  Bratton PR
 
t: +44 (0)1895 477770; e: sallybratton@brattonpr.com
 
 
TeleCity:
James Tyler: +44 20 7519 4858
 
Email : mediaenquiries@telecity.com
 
BT Global Services:
Justine Manché, PR manager, BT Global Services,
T: 07850 732233 or email: justine.manche@bt.com

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Frankfurt, 29 September 2005 – TeleCity (LSE:TCY.L), the leading European colocation, data centre and managed services company, today announced that the corporate auditor, Ernst & Young, is to consolidate three of its European data centres at TeleCity in Frankfurt. From October 2005, the IT servers of Ernst & Young’s national data centres in Eschborn near Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Rotterdam will be brought together in a 600 sq. m. suite at TeleCity’s Frankfurt facility. Ernst & Young will continue to operate the network infrastructure, hardware, software, data and applications.
 
Ernst & Young selected TeleCity due to the high degree of flexibility and associated cost advantages on offer. “While a dedicated new-build, in-house data centre requires high initial investment, and the full benefit of the investment is not achieved for several years, a consolidation in TeleCity’s data centre allows us to realise considerable savings, because we only pay for the area being utilised at any particular time. Our analysis of the European colocation market highlighted clear price advantages for Frankfurt,” says Siggi Hauer, Ernst & Young CIO (Chief Information Officer) for Central Europe. “In addition, we see TeleCity as a growing and reliable partner, capable of managing additional data centre services in the future.”
 
Another core factor in Ernst & Young’s decision to go with TeleCity was the IT service provider’s recent certification to BS7799. The British industry standard confirms the company’s secure handling of information – an essential criterion for a corporate auditor such as Ernst & Young. “An additional advantage is TeleCity’s IP Multihome service, which provides high-quality IP connectivity and maximum resilience,” explains Dr. Harold Klein, CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of Ernst & Young AG.
 
“The partnership with Ernst & Young is a clear signal of the re-stimulation of the colocation market in Germany,” said Dr. Béla Waldhauser, Managing Director of TeleCity GmbH. “We are currently involved in detailed talks with other prestigious companies, for which we will also be providing a wide range of services in the near future. A key part of our strength is the combination of conventional colocation business and a new generation of specialised services, individually tailored to the customer.”
 
About Ernst & Young
With headquarters in Stuttgart, Ernst & Young is one of Germany’s major auditors and management consultancies and is the German member company of Ernst & Young Global. Ernst & Young is the leading German provider of tax consultancy services, employing around 6,500 people in 22 locations. In the 2003/2004 business year, the company returned a turnover of more than EUR 860 million, making Ernst & Young the third largest player in the German audit and consultancy sector.
 
The service offerings include auditing, pre-audit consultancy, tax consultancy and transaction and real estate consultancy. Legal advice services are provided by associated Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH. Ernst & Young is a partner of both large and medium-sized companies. In the 2003/2004 business year, Ernst & Young Global employed 100,000 staff and recorded sales revenues of more than USD 14.5 billion.
 
Additional information can be found at: http://www.de.ey.com
 
For further information, please contact:
 
Dag-Stefan Rittmeister                                         Kerstin Gauf
Leiter Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit               Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Ernst & Young                                                       Ernst & Young
Mittlerer Pfad 15                                                   Mergenthaler Allee 10-12
70499 Stuttgart                                                    65760 Eschborn
Germany                                                               Germany
Phone:  +49 (0) 988 11 59 80                              Phone:  +49 (0) 996 24798
Fax: :    +49 (0) 988 11 51 77                              Fax:      +49 (0) 996 26518
E-mail: dag-stefan.rittmeister@de.ey.com          E-mail: kerstin.gauf@de.ey.com

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