Linux server demand also improved in 4Q09 with revenue growing 6.1%
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From: za kAT on 29 Jun 2010 18:31 Linux server demand also improved in 4Q09 with revenue growing 6.1% http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?sessionId=&containerId=prUS22224510&sessionId=IL5URBYDC2OK4CQJAFDCFFAKBEAVAIWD -- zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat - Sergeant Tech-Com, DN38416. Assigned to protect you. You've been targeted for denigration!
From: za kAT on 29 Jun 2010 19:25
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:03:20 -0700, Mike Easter wrote: > za kAT wrote: >> Linux server demand also improved in 4Q09 with revenue growing 6.1% >> >> http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?sessionId=&containerId=prUS22224510&sessionId=IL5URBYDC2OK4CQJAFDCFFAKBEAVAIWD >> > The big problem with trying to use IDC stats to talk about linux market > share is that some IDC stats are based on revenue, while other IDC stats > are based on 'units'. The fair way to consider usage when comparing > Windows with linux for servers is to compare units not revenue. > > Windows/MS has a lot of revenue for things that linux does not. > > That link is a revenue link. Agreed, but it doesn't take a genius to realise that even if you didn't take off the OS and applications from the Microsoft revenue figures of 5.4 billion that Linux is far from the luzer's geeky OS painted by our friend Bottom. Quite what share free Unix OS's like freeBSD vs commercial Unix hold isn't clear either. Not that market share makes any difference to me whatsoever in choosing a server OS... but I guess it feeds through more revenue for Linux development. -- zakAT(a)pooh.the.cat - Sergeant Tech-Com, DN38416. Assigned to protect you. You've been targeted for denigration! |