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Windows Bumps Unix as Top Server OS
Ivan writes "
Windows narrowly bumped Unix in 2005 to claim the top spot in server sales for the first time, according to a new report from IDC.
Computer makers sold $17.7 billion worth of Windows servers worldwide in 2005 compared with $17.5 billion in Unix servers, IDC analyst Matthew Eastwood said of the firm's latest Server Tracker market share report. "It's the first time Unix was not top overall since before the Tracker started in 1996.""
Sometimes you want to patch, reboot and repeat. Stability is so *boring*.
MS is kicking ass in the sales department as compared to FreeBSD, Debian, etc.
Way to go MS!
A number of dinosaurs is being surrounded with a lot of mammals...
Upon hearing the news, Steve Ballmer was happy to hear that his long-thought-out plan to Fucking Kill(TM) UNIX was well underway. When he asked what was next, his advisers told him he'd have to wait, as the database of things to Fucking Kill(TM) had grown too large for Windows to handle so it had to be converted to a UNIX box.
Steve Ballmer is now in the process of Fucking Kill(TM)ing his entire staff.
Maybe spottedkangeroo is a shopaholic.
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Where does *BSD go? And what about OS X server
Both are probably lost within the margin of error. Sorry.
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Unless they release ALL the data it's a worthless study. have dell release all server sales with and without OS. without OS will dominate nearly 2 to 1.
, 000 to 1!
2 to 1 in favor of servers without an OS huh?
Well after consulting my very own set of non-existant/made-up data I must inform you that you are not even close! According to my data servers with an OS outnumber servers without an OS by more than 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
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Because most Linux systems are based on GNU, and GNU's Not Unix! ;-P
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Many people usually talk about these systems by calling them "*nix".
.+n.{1}x, which correctly matches linux and unix.
I don't like *nix, its not a correct abreviation, since Linux is not spelt with any match for *nix. I would prefer it if people generally used:
*n?x, or
So, are we counting BSD as Unix?
Why UNIX?
Shhhhhhh! The Posix Nazis might hear you.
what would a windows machine do that would be unused for 5 years
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And its IP.