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

Who is still selling UNIX?

[jimbro2k]

We know it's not SCO

wait

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

Re:wait

[YankeeInExile]

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.

Idiotic windows users...

[eggoeater]

up 500%.

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

[14erCleaner]

From the article:

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.

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

[Frankie70]

OK - so a free product's revenue is up 35%. That's good news.

No mention of BSD!

[Mars Ultor]

What about *BSD? I think the absence of any mention here is a clear indicator that it's dying. Anyone have some Netcraft stats?

Is that all?

[Vainglorious Coward]

35.6% seems a pretty poor record for uptime to me.

Up compared to what?

[bwcarty]

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%.

It's ALL servers up, better news than I thought

[RealAlaskan]

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.

MiniMac servers up

[WillAffleckUW]

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!

Feel good to be a UNIX admin right at this moment

[nomad63]

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 :)

Blade server definition

[ZeeExSixAre]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_server

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.

You're not kidding

[delcielo]

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.