Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

4 of 167 comments (clear)

  1. 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".

  2. 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.

  3. 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

    --
    Slashdot: News for Nerds, Stuff that matters only to them
  4. 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.