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."

Comments

In other words

[Anonymous Coward]

Linux is making inroads on replacing old UNIX servers. We already knew this.

No doubt, fanboys will use it to claim some sort of global victory for Linux. You're replacing old UNIX servers. Congratulations.

Re:Linux server revenue almost equals M$-Windows

[Anonymous Coward]

Where did you get those numbers? I read: "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."

Which means that Linux was 9% of 5.2 billion or .468 billion, roughly 1/10th Windows server share.

Way to FUD there buddy. You should work for Microsoft!

Re:It's Linux *revenue* that's up 35%, not count

[Money for Nothin']

"Linux is only free if your time isn't worth anything." -- somebody brilliant