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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. Isn't this because... by Steveftoth · · Score: 1, Troll

    you need like 3-5 windows boxes to equal one good unix server?

    MS themselves reccommends that you have multiple boxes incase one fails. Especially because most of the boxes that run windows do not support any sort of failover if RAM, CPU or PCI card failure. So yeah, if you need to have multiple nines in the uptime of your site, then you will need multiple boxes to handles that.

    Number of boxes sold != number of services in any way shape of form.