We took a hard look at how easy these Web servers are to configure, manage and maintain. Netscape Enterprise Server (soon to be known as the Sun-Netscape Alliance's iPlanet Enterprise Server) edges out the rest of the pack because it supports so many platforms and is easy to manage. You might say it won on a technicality, though--Microsoft's Internet Information System (IIS) outperformed both Netscape and Apache in several tests, and it provided solid management features and very flexible configuration. Too bad it's only for Windows NT. Then there's Apache. Though it's clearly a cult favorite, it lacks the management tools that would make it a superior Web server. Apache's performance was adequate, and only occasionally beat out the competition.