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Gartner: Linux Servers Booming

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the all-the-rage-with-the-kids-these-days dept.

Tarantolato writes "According to a recent Gartner report, low-end Linux server shipments grew significantly in the first quarter of 2004. Part of this may be due to the comeback of the relational database market in 2003, where Linux growth was especially strong, while Windows growth was weaker. There is mixed news for Sun, who saw growing shipments but declining revenues in Q1 of 2004."

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  1. Keep the noise down! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux servers are booming, Windows servers are bombing and crashing. It's hard to get caught up on my sleep!

  2. Mod Parent Down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He speaketh against our penguin overlord. Without Tux what will we worship? CowboyNeals nutsack?

    1. Re:Mod Parent Down by Fjornir · · Score: 2, Funny
      Uhm. Someone chose to be called "SnoBall", and asks for a "15-minute plug"...

      Sorry, dude. Back to the 18 1/2 minute gap for you.

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  3. but... by tisme · · Score: 4, Funny

    But... those Windows Server advertisements say that Windows server is so much faster... And the results are from INDEPENDENT and ACADEMIC sources?? Why would companies buy the inferior product?? Surely Microsoft would not lie? :P

  4. Linux Servers Booming?! by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh my God, I'll better watch out for my server, I don't want it to suddenly boom! I'll better check the water cooling system...

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  5. In Related News... by k4_pacific · · Score: 5, Funny

    A Microsoft representative made the following statement at a press conference today:

    "Where are you going? Come back! You'll all be doomed, DOOMED if you use Linux. DOOMED! After all, our studies, err, I mean independent studies have shown that Windows has a lower overall total cost of ownership. I mean, c'mon, Longhorn's coming soon. It will be better, we promise. It has Pallad-- err, Trusted Computing. Doesn't that sound nice? Trust? Can you trust Linux? You can? Fine! Be that way. We have FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS. We can by and sell your ass. Hmmppphhh!"

    A followup press release attributed the remarks to an overly tight necktie.

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  6. Gartner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    So do we like Gartner today?

    1. Re:Gartner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes (0.8 likelihood)

    2. Re:Gartner by femto · · Score: 2, Funny
      We like Gartner on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays of odd numbered months. In even numbered months, the rule is Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, with the exception of the first week when Sundays become Wednesdays. In leap years, swap the role of odd and even months.

      Consequently, yes, today we like Gartner.

      Of course that depends on what time zone you like in. If you live in the US, you should still be hating Gartner until midnight.

  7. SCOIX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well this is bad news for innovation and copyright. Linux on the rise == Piracy on the rise. This is a sad day for us all. I hope this "rise" of Linux servers means people are buying the correct LICENSE from SCO to run Linux. Otherwise, we're all in trouble. SCO has given the world so much, when they invented Linux, and now nobody wants to pay for it and pretend its free. Nothing is free folks. Get on over to SCO and buy a license and sleep better tonight.

    You're all a bunch of smelly ass hippies, and have no business using a computer if you don't want to pay for the OS!

    1. Re:SCOIX by dcstimm · · Score: 3, Funny

      thanks for letting me know, i didnt know the slashdot croud felt that way, I happily payed for all my linux licenses from sco. Only thing I didnt like was the fact that they charged me almost double for my dual cpu machines. Oh well better be safe than sorry. Hopefully they will lower the price alittle in the future so linux will become more mainstream.

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  8. The problem with that.... by Xtifr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course, you can't replace five linux servers with five windows servers. If you tried, you'd have...not enough servers. You'd need at least ten to twenty-five windows servers to replace five linux servers. :)

    Now, if you replaced five linux servers with five windows servers and four linux servers, it would look good for MS, which would apparently have more servers at that point, even though the linux servers would be doing 80% of the work. :)

  9. Re:Which Distribution, then? by BenjyD · · Score: 2, Funny

    Six days to emerge the system? Sounds about right.