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Linux Market: Absolutes / Percentages / Trends
vincecate writes "In their 10-K filing, Microsoft says that
Linux server units
rose slightly faster on an absolute basis
than Windows server units in fiscal 2004.
To project the trends it is helpful to
look at the percentages.
Some
Gartner Inc. statistics
report Linux server unit shipments are up 61% giving it 9.5% of the overall market share.
Windows has a much larger base, so it can get
the same absolute unit growth with a much
lower percentage.
Gartner expects Linux to continue growing faster and have
more than 1/2 of the new server shipment market
by the end of 2008."
All that money that SCO will be making!
BEAVIS Dammit, this always happens! I think I'm gonna score and then I never score! It's not fair! We've traveled a hundred miles 'cause we thought we were gonna score, but now it's not gonna happen!
BUS DRIVER (yelling from his seat) Hey buddy, sit down! Now!
BEAVIS SHUT UP! (continuing) I'm sick and tired of this! We're never gonna score! It's just not gonna happen! We're just gonna get old like these people, but they've probably scored!
BUS DRIVER (standing) Hey! I'm warning you! Sit down!
BEAVIS It's like this chick's a slut (motioning to Martha)... and look at this guy!... He's old but he's probably scored a million times!
OLD GUY (nods in agreement) Ohh yeah.
BEAVIS But not us! We're never gonna score! WE'RE NEVER GONNA SCORE!!! AAGGHHHH!!!
If you go by all the hype.... yesterday ;)
Apparently 2 minutes after the story was posted...so 452.5 wpm... :)
Sod programming, this guy should work at a call centre.
27.9% of statistics are made up.
Nope. Don't invest now. Wait a bit more. Remember, there is a low barrier to entry to the Linux market. It is and will remain very competitive. RHAT mad a big mistake by not continuing in the retail market for Linux distros. Their accountants will continue to pile on the mistakes. When RHAT returns to it vision of knocking off Microsoft and being the vechicle for WORLD DOMINATION, then it will be time to invest in RHAT. As long as the bean counters think in terms of quarterly numbers and miniscule market share then they'll take off. If some other Linux company doesn't figure it out first.
Sell.
If by preinstalled unit sales, presumably sometime in the next four years.
If by distribution sales, probably next year or the year after.
If by legitimate installed base, Linux is probably well in the lead already.
If by total installed base including warez, probably next year or the year after.
If someone makes a virus that downloads a modified Debian and replaces MS-Windows, IIS and VBSCript with it without noticeably interrupting the services on the machine, about two weeks after that.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
Trust me. If I ever, at any stage, start feeling like an Ewok I will not be describing my life as good.
Cheers,
Ian
It's like I'm back in 97 again!
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
If you don't count the machines currently in the process of rebooting and therefore unusable, then it has already occurred
Get a free ipod.
" *most* sys admins are not capable of installing or using Linux (or any other OS) unless it's dumbed-down to the childish level of the current Windows OSes."
" he was trying to boot the server with the MS Office 2003 CD"
Not capable, but very creative