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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. Interesting by ryanw · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This news is interesting but what would be interesting to see is which markets Linux servers are eating up. People of /. are going to assume "FINALLY THE DOWN FALL OF MICROSOFT!". But the truth of the matter is Linux is probably eating up the markets of AIX, HP-UX, SunOS, Alpha, etc. Look at Sun's stock.... Down over 30% from last year? Even if this statistic is true I don't think Microsoft is probably losing any business but rather our fellow UNIX brothers. Go Linux!?

  2. Tip of the iceburg by NZheretic · · Score: 4, Insightful
    IDC has always based its survey data around sales of servers with Linux pre-installed. IDC barely scratches the surface. They do not count the number of whitebox systems sold, OEM systems sold with Microsoft's OSs and older hardware now running Linux fulltime.

    The last eight Intel servers I installed were all assembled from good quality motherboards, fans and better quality ATX power supplies into run of the mill whitebox full/mid tower cases.

    If space is not an issue then I find that taking time to assemble a well laid out PC case delivers better reliability than Intel based 1U or 2U rackmounted servers.

  3. Forecast for when? by wulfbyte · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Whenever I see words like forecast and prediction buried, I wonder what the motivation of the writer is. I dug around a very little bit and found this link to an IDC ress release that this is based on (I think). IDC - Press Release http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=pr2004_1 1_02_093312 Reading the press release, I could only think to myself "uhm, duh, who couldn't see that coming." I do wonder how they came up with the time frame though. Four years seems like a long time to predict anything in the IT business with any accuracy.

  4. By 2008?? by wirelessbuzzers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who will be able to predict the market in 2008? With spam, viruses and hacker attacks escalating, and Longhorn due to be released... who really knows what the market will be like then?

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