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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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Didn't MS claim their server was up in the market as well?
Are these numbers the same (due to more servers being shipped) or are they actually due to increased market share?
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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 $4.6 billion.
Linux servers represented 9 percent of worldwide server revenue in 2004, which is 35.6 percent growth compared to the year before.
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none other than IBM I would presume. Sun and SGI are dead so I don't see unix jumping ahead in the near future. Apple doesn't come off as a server company. BSD isn't as widely supported (I don't think) as Linux, and certainly doesn't have the momentum. Continue to see Linux Rise !
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What about *BSD? I think the absence of any mention here is a clear indicator that it's dying. Anyone have some Netcraft stats?
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35.6% seems a pretty poor record for uptime to me.
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Linux servers up 35.6% and other Unix servers are up 2.7%.
Need a new sysadmin? My Linux and Unix servers are up over 99%.
Growth in Linux is good, but overall growth in IT means more jobs, and that's even better.
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HP (HP-UX) Sun (Solaris) IBM (AIX) One could also claim that the BSD versions (like Apple OS/X) fall in the category.
These figures are based on revenue, what's the market share in terms of numbers?
That is, in terms of the number of Unix servers vs. Linux servers vs. Windows servers?
I don't think revenue gives one an accurate picture of the market share of these servers, especially for Linux since I'd expect the software for Linux machines ( and probably hardware too, since it's off the shelf stuff versus a lot of the stuff from Sun/IBM ) to be a lot cheaper.
but they're too small to be counted.
... oh, wait, it's under my coffee cup!
i know i had a MiniMac server somewhere on my desk
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Looks like Linux is catching up on M$-Windows.
Missing from the summary was mention of Windows growth--"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."
That's really good for a non-UNIX server.
and 99% of the time I don't care.
Well kinda-sorta. I have devoted last 13 years of my 40+ years life to be a full time computer systems admin, after getting my bachelors and masters degrees in EE and working 7 years in the electronics assembly and manufacturing trenches. I knew that there was an ulterior motive to go in the UNIX direction rather than windoze path subconciously but did not know exactly why and how I ended up being a UNIX guy. :)
During the last few years, certificate mills creating an army of windows admin drones, who can only click a predefined sequence of location on the screen with their mouse and passing as "system administrators", I tend to think that, certificate watching management types are going to hire more and more of these admin lookalikes and increase the share of windows in the server room which would make a demise of my careerpath. When I see articles like UNIX/Linux gaining ground on the server room, it makes me breathe a little easier. I do not want another career change, even though, after a week of skiing in Colorado, doing something like that for living is tempting
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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.
A blade server is essentially a computer on a motherboard, including: one or more processors, memory, storage, and network connections. The idea behind blade servers is that many such blades can be added in space-saving racks, thus providing compact and powerful computing solutions that are less expensive than traditional solutions (such as mainframes). Blade servers are ideal for specific purposes such as web hosting and cluster computing. Individual blades are typically hot-swappable. Although blade server technology allows for open, cross-vendor solutions, for the time being, users experience fewer problems when keeping with blades, racks and blade management tools from the same vendor. Eventual standardisation of the technology will hopefully result in more choices for consumers; increasing numbers of third-party software vendors are now entering this growing field.
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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Too bad the story submitter and the slashdot editors have worked together to give us a dollar amount an label it a server unit number, but still.... when looking at server deployments, I'm going to guess that if you're just looking for percent increases in units shipped, nobody this past year is going to beat XServe numbers.
These statistics are always hard to digest, though... what segment of the server market are we talking about, what constitutes a server, is that UnixTM or does BSD/Darwin count, etc... I always have more questions than such articles are prepared to answer.
Still, any increase in Linux sales is good news.
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