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."

Comments

[OT] Don't you mean the GNU/BSDs?

[leonbrooks]

Or perhaps you should be writing BSD/GNU/Linux, since a goodly share (possibly most: think about PostFix, Apache, SendMail, PostgreSQL, BIND, XFree86 and the zillion or so other most-used apps which are BSD-or-similar licenced) of the software in a distro uses a BSD-ish licence.

I'm personally a fan of the GPL, and licence all of my own creations under it by default, and do appreciate the GNU tools forming a significant part of a distro - but "GNU/Linux" is a ridiculous and cumbersome assertion.

Mind you, I'd find "BSD/Windows" or "GNU/ServicesForUnix" deeply amusing.