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Windows Servers Neck and Neck with Unix Servers

Posted by Zonk on from the five-bucks-on-unix dept.

BrainSurgeon writes "According to the Register, Windows based servers are now even with Unix based servers in terms of sales for the first time ever." From the article: "In an overall up server market, IDC counted $4.2bn worth of Microsoft Windows server sales on the back of 12 percent growth. Total Unix sales also hit $4.2bn in the period, IDC said, on 3 per cent revenue growth. Those totals left Microsoft and Unix systems holding 35 per cent of the server market each."

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  1. Re:Okay so... by breadbot · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to the article, Linux accounted for 10% of sales:

    Linux server sales continued to show the strongest growth at 35.2 per cent and accounted for $1.2bn in sales. Linux servers made up 10 per cent of total sales in the quarter.

    So Linux is being must be counted separately from Unix.

  2. Bean Counters by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 2, Informative
    A better question, what do people even run on a Windows server?

    Mostly big "enterprise" CRM and other slaes type applications, as well as document management systems. And of course IIS...

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  3. Re:Sales != volume by UnknowingFool · · Score: 2, Informative
    Who wants to bet that maybe Microsoft just charge more? :)

    You're probably right. Just like last quarter Apple sold more desktop Macs than the previous quarter but made less money per unit because they began to sell a lot of Mac minis which were cheaper.

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  4. Re:SQL Server by mgkimsal2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    sybase, initially. it's been many years since then, so my assumption is that it's been quite modified since then.

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