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Server Makers Push Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-huge-shocker dept.

Rob writes "The bi-annual LinuxWorld trade show is under way this week in San Francisco, and once again the major platform makers are swearing their fealty to Linux and trying to figure out any angle they can to use Linux as a lever to wrest sales away from their competition and money out of their customer bases. The Linux market has largely proven itself (even if it is still dwarfed by Windows and Unix), and now the major server makers are getting down to the brass tacks of marketing as well as broadening and deepening their support of Linux on their platforms." Also FYI, I will be attending the Slashdot BOF session on Wednesday and answering questions. I'm hoping to be able to show people a good demo of Slashdot in CSS!

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  1. CSS by jericho4.0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    We've alread seen /. in CSS.

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    "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
    1. Re:CSS by __aaitqo8496 · · Score: 4, Informative

      And if you want to know more about how it was done, you can actually read the article

  2. Re:CSS?? Slashdot? Godzirrrrra!! by br0ck · · Score: 3, Informative

    They've been working on it for a while and you can preview it at SlashCode.

  3. Re:Uhm... by colins · · Score: 3, Informative

    They're probably looking at the market in terms of revenue, instead of the number of installed seats.

    At about $3.5 million for a 72 processor E25K from Sun, it takes a lot of dual processor Xeon sales to catch up.

    According to IDC (http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS001 53905) the revenue in Q1 2005 was about $4.2 billion each for Unix and Windows servers (the first time Windows has pulled even with Unix), and $1.2 billion for Linux server.

    So the Unix and Windows markets in terms of server revenue are each currently about 3.5 times the size of the Linux market (based on Q1 2005).

    It's interesting to note that Linux unit shipments increased 31.1% in the quarter compared to 2004. Windows unit shipments increased 10.7% in the same period.

    -cjs