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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."
Growth in Linux is good, but overall growth in IT means more jobs, and that's even better.
See what I've been reading.
Probably more servers being shipped, people with an agenda (like MS) tend to use tricky language. Look at the GOP
These figures are based on revenue, what's the market share in terms of numbers?
That is, in terms of the number of Unix servers vs. Linux servers vs. Windows servers?
I don't think revenue gives one an accurate picture of the market share of these servers, especially for Linux since I'd expect the software for Linux machines ( and probably hardware too, since it's off the shelf stuff versus a lot of the stuff from Sun/IBM ) to be a lot cheaper.
and 99% of the time I don't care.
If the whole market is growing, then Linux could be gaining market share and MS could be losing market share, but MS could still be shipping more than ever.
That (i.e., the whole market is growing) is what we see happening, though that doesn't mean that MS is actually losing market share: thay may simply be gaining more slowly than before.
See what I've been reading.
This is not an increase in market share! This is an increase in revanue. Microsoft was reporting similar gains for their server division as well.
When you're not talking about market share, everybody can be a winner!
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At first I assumed it was market share. Then I stopped and thought it must be something much less dramatic. Then I RTFA. Jeez..... Basically, in a growing server market, Linux is producing more money than it did before.
You can say anything with numbers, especially by omitting some of them. Those numbers are probably adjusted for inflation, but we don't really know because it doesn't say.
So somebody who takes a disk, knows what they are doing, and makes three servers is not represented in the stats.
A Linux box which does two tasks and a Windows box which is devoted to only one will also skew the stats.
While this stat is helpful on a year-to-year basis to see how the industry is trending, it does not give a complete picture.
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You're not kidding. I didn't get any real respect around here until I started spending money on server class hardware, "enterprise" distributions, etc.
Funny how that works. You would think that I'd get more respect for NOT spending money.
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Linux is the future. And it always will be.
Understand these misleading stats: Linux server sales revenues grew 36% over the previous year. But the grand total is still only 9% of the total server market.
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