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Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6%

cfelde writes "Linux servers up 35.6% and other Unix servers are up 2.7%. Also worldwide server revenue increased 6.2 percent to US$49 billion in 2004. The blade server market nearly doubled in size to over $1.1 billion in 2004 and 7 percent of x86 shipments in the U.S. were blade servers."

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  1. Who is still selling UNIX? by jimbro2k · · Score: 5, Funny

    We know it's not SCO

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  2. Idiotic windows users... by eggoeater · · Score: 5, Funny

    up 500%.

  3. No mention of BSD! by Mars+Ultor · · Score: 5, Funny

    What about *BSD? I think the absence of any mention here is a clear indicator that it's dying. Anyone have some Netcraft stats?

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  4. Is that all? by Vainglorious+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    35.6% seems a pretty poor record for uptime to me.

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    1. Re:Is that all? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Are you off your medication, again?

  5. Computerworld.com.au confirms it... by Joey+Patterson · · Score: 2, Funny

    Linux is NOT dying!

  6. Up compared to what? by bwcarty · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux servers up 35.6% and other Unix servers are up 2.7%.

    Need a new sysadmin? My Linux and Unix servers are up over 99%.

  7. MiniMac servers up by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 5, Funny

    but they're too small to be counted.

    i know i had a MiniMac server somewhere on my desk ... oh, wait, it's under my coffee cup!

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  8. Re:It's Linux *revenue* that's up 35%, not count by Frankie70 · · Score: 5, Funny

    OK - so a free product's revenue is up 35%. That's good news.

  9. Re:So what's.... by ajnsue · · Score: 2, Funny

    can you imagine how embarrasing that was for me... My stupidity documented. Guess I will go back to managing my win2k boxes and shut up.

  10. Monkeys by wed128 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Throw Poo.

  11. Re:The Linux Increase Can Be Attributed to by fr2asbury · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sun and SGI are dead. BSD is dead. Linux will be dead by adding a Windows driver infastructure to it. Old people in Korea aren't dead though, they still send email. SCO is undead. When will this culture of death end?

  12. Re:wait by YankeeInExile · · Score: 5, Funny

    At whose expense? If Linux and Unix are both up, and MS is also up, who's down? IBM mainframes?
    At the expense of shops who were using no computer at all. Or abacuses.
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  13. Re:for comparison by youngerpants · · Score: 2, Funny

    Informafunny

    Funnymative

    Damn, and I've got mod points... I just dont know how to use them on your post.

    And now I cant use them at all

  14. Re:Activant Solutions use UNIX -- many new install by Lehk228 · · Score: 2, Funny

    They are running UNIX on the back end with familiar Windows machines for the POS machines.
    I always choose windows when i need a POS machine.

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  15. Re:It's Linux *revenue* that's up 35%, not count by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Repeat the words: "I can get a sense of humor"...the same amount of times. Maybe it will come true!

  16. Re:wait by cold+fjord · · Score: 2, Funny

    At the expense of shops who were using no computer at all. Or abacuses.

    I would laugh if the situation weren't so serious for my company. We are on the verge of a disaster.

    Chisembop manual sales have been flat for 5 years.

    Adding machine sales are down 38%.

    Calculator sales are down 52%, including the newest hand held models.

    Slide rule sales are down 79%.

    Analytical engine sales are down 93%.

    Tabulator sales are down 98%.

    Our abacus miniaturization project is running into problems with prior art by a "major" competitor.

    To top it off, our hope for a Multitronic breakthrough appears to have dangerous side effects after four models that were outright failures.

    Unless we can pump up our mentat outsourcing service, or complete development of our Make me a Rainman! kit, we're doomed! Doomed I tell you! :(

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  17. Re:The Linux Increase Can Be Attributed to by penguinoid · · Score: 2, Funny

    When will this culture of death end?

    When will this culture of death die off?

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