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Linux Market: Absolutes / Percentages / Trends

Posted by timothy on from the any-two-points-fit-a-curve dept.

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."

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  1. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    All that money that SCO will be making!

  2. Re:I like linux by molkov · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apparently 2 minutes after the story was posted...so 452.5 wpm... :) Sod programming, this guy should work at a call centre.

  3. stats by tuxter · · Score: 3, Funny

    27.9% of statistics are made up.

  4. How do you measure it? by leonbrooks · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:a couple of points. by mccalli · · Score: 2, Funny
    I get an [inkling] of how the Ewoks/rebels must have felt...Sometimes life is good.

    Trust me. If I ever, at any stage, start feeling like an Ewok I will not be describing my life as good.

    Cheers,
    Ian

  6. Re:I like linux by Paulrothrock · · Score: 2, Funny
    First Impressions on LinuxSucks.org from a Mac user: Wow. A bunch of sociopathic thirteen-year-olds complaining about something they're too stupid or lazy to understand.

    It's like I'm back in 97 again!

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  7. Re:At this rate ... by Zapdos · · Score: 2, Funny

    If you don't count the machines currently in the process of rebooting and therefore unusable, then it has already occurred

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