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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. It's ALL servers up, better news than I thought by RealAlaskan · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It looks as if all server sales are up, not just Linux and Unix. From TFA:
    When it comes to operating systems, Unix and Windows servers continued to grow. Unix server revenue was $5.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 2004 while the corresponding figure for Windows was $4.6 billion. Linux servers represented 9 percent of worldwide server revenue in 2004, which is 35.6 percent growth compared to the year before.
    It sounds as if we're seeing some growth in IT spending, rather than just growth in Linux. Notice that Unix servers are still a bit ahead of Windows, in terms of dollar volume.

    Growth in Linux is good, but overall growth in IT means more jobs, and that's even better.

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  2. 97.3% of all statistics are made up by xtermin8 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and 99% of the time I don't care.

  3. Up 35.6%!! Even for Slashdot, this is meaningless. by kokoloko · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  4. You're not kidding by delcielo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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  5. Sun by Mark_MF-WN · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sun is notorious for producing some of the most stable software in the world. It's not fast, or pretty; it just never, ever fails. You can see this in the SUN JVM; it's about as stable as you could ever hope for. It's ugly and sluggish, but it's abhorrently resilient.