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Linux Server Sales to Reach $9.1 Billion by 2008

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the popular-penguins dept.

dunric writes "ZDNet is reporting that sales of servers using Linux will reach a whopping $9.1 billion by 2008. Annual revenue for Linux servers is expected to grow by a healthy 22.8 percent, compared to just 3.8 percent for the overall server market. Additionally, Linux servers will account for nearly 26% of all server shipments."

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  1. Wow, $9.1 billion sales by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    of a free program. From this we can conclude unit sales of Linux to be about Infinity Times 9.1. That's pretty good.

    1. Re:Wow, $9.1 billion sales by jericho4.0 · · Score: 1, Funny
      Whooooooosh!

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  2. A blatant falsehood by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    As can be confirmed by simply going to Netcraft, Slashdot actually runs on the crushed hopes, dreams and spirits of thousands of self-proclaimed, social-anxiety-disorder-afflicted "nerds".

  3. Re:Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So what you're saying is...

    BSD was killed by... Linux, on the internet, with the GPL?

    Man, I must've drank way too much, I don't remember ANY of those in MY Clue set...

  4. Not real growth. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Everybody knows that people buy Linux servers just so they can install pirated versions of Windows on them!

    Linux may be sitting high and pretty on the desktop market, but it has to create a usable UI to break on thru to the server market.

  5. Re:Linux and Me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Those who wish to use their computer for recreational purposes are also out of luck, for almost all of the most popular games are unavailable for Linux.

    You lie. WINE can emulate most PC games. It only takes 3-4 years to make them compatible

  6. But Windows has a lower TCO and better performance by Nine+Tenths+of+The+W · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's what the adverts on Slashdot say, anyway

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  7. Good point, my little mislead friend by koi88 · · Score: 2, Funny


    This is sales of Linux *SERVERS*, not the OS itself.

     Good point as we all know these servers now run pirated copies of the superior Microsoft(C) Windows(TM) Server 2003(C)(TM)(R).

    PS: Don't forget to click the banner on top of /. Get the facts

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  8. Re:But Windows has a lower TCO and better performa by Darth+Cow · · Score: 4, Funny

    Get it straight! It's lower TC0 - Total Cost of 0wnership.

  9. Re:Interesting.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...I believe the situation would be clearer (for once!) if we wrote GNU/Linux instead of Linux

    Interesting, ESR's Slashdot nickname appears to be "pyat".