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Unix servers up 2.7%, Linux servers up 35.6%

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lookit-all-them-numbers dept.

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%.

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  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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  5. 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%.

  6. 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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  7. 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.

  8. 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?

  9. 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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  10. 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!