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Linux Server Sales Top $1 Billion
linuxwrangler writes "InfoWorld is reporting that IDC's report on Q3 server sales shows that Linux server revenue topped $1 billion for the first time. Linux servers showed year-over-year gain of 42.6 percent. Windows server revenue grew by 13.3 percent year-over-year while the mid-range server marked dominated by Sun showed a 10.2 percent decline this quarter."
We always end up spending just as much in software licenses as we do on the hardware when we buy a server.
wow, that proves that linux is 3.203007518796992481203007518797 times better than windows. finally, this will silence those capitalists in Redmond!
Windows servers grew by 13.3 per cent, with units up 19.1% quarter on quarter, year on year
Some interesting Linux information can be gleamed from it. Look at the Volume growth vs. Value growth
You can see that Linux is not only growing very fast but moving up the food chain. Value is growing faster than units. Windows is increasingly relegated to the low end.
Help fight continental drift.
Actually I have a 16 processor x440 NUMA system at work here. I don't think FreeBSD can even boot on it. If it could it wouldn't be able to use more than a couple of CPUs at a time.
We have tried it on a quad Opteron, and it barely gets 2 CPUs worth of performance from the 4 CPU system. Not to mention data corruption bugs with > 4GB memory on that platform.
Linux scales almost linearly to the 16 CPU beast.
And obviously you are an ignorant troll too!
> I guess there is no limit to people ignorance
But believe me you are setting the top line with that troll of yours...
> people will buy anything
Usually people who buy production servers do not just buy anything, we are not talking about desktops here.
> one has to contemplate the numerous incompatiable distributions
Bullshit, there is more consensus between Linux distributions than between BSD systems.
> and lack of hardware support
If you mean from vendors, then I agree. If you mean out of the box, then I DON'T agree. Linux beats even Windows when it comes to hardware support out of the box.
> and the monolithic kernel locks
Last I checked BSD systems and Windows had monolithic kernels too.
> we all know BSD if far better than Linux
Read above and learn the truth.
> and Windows has captured the market for some apparent reason
Again, we are talking about production servers, not desktops, go and check with netcraft.
Stop playing with the troll, you'll only encourage him. Her. It.
>> and the monolithic kernel locks
> Last I checked BSD systems and Windows had
> monolithic kernels too.
Well if you ask the particularly deluded zealots, then they'll say Windows NT is a microkernel. That is your queue to laugh in their face though.
The 3 (4?) main free BSDs are monolithic kernels, but he was talking about "the monolothic kernel locks". I suspect he is a retard who doesn't know what he's talking about, because Linux *and* Windows both have much finer grained locking than any BSD, and Linux (don't know about windows) makes far more use of lockfree algorithms and data structures than any BSD, (per cpu data, RCU, "seqlocks", etc).
....and Solaris beats the pants off of all of them with respect to threading.
Link? (nothing from sun.com, please)