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| Time: 14:26 EST/19:26 GMT | News Source: Ars Technica | Posted By: Michael Dragone | ||
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The latest numbers from the survey company IDC show that Windows edged up slightly, gaining 2 percent from last year's quarter to lead the field with 67.1 percent of servers sold. Linux accounted for 22.8 percent, down from 23.1 percent last year. Proprietary Unix servers lost 1.2 percent to finish off the list at 7.6 percent of the market. Of course, these server sales only count new machines and not existing hardware that had a new operating system installed on it, or bare hardware that was sold without an operating system and later had one installed—both scenarios that would tend to favor Linux and give it a larger share than is indicated. However, the figures are a useful metric to see which operating systems are gaining and which are losing share over time. | ||
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| #1 By 32132 (142.32.208.232) at 8/29/2007 2:51:29 PM |
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"or bare hardware that was sold without an operating system and later had one installed—both scenarios that would tend to favor Linux "
All Windows Servers we buy come without an OS. We buy the OS through a reseller for our Academic discount. Many, many businesses and Education organizations are in the same situation. Saying that it favors Linux is garbage. Windows grew 2% and Linux dropped .3%. No surprise. The Linux fad is waning. |
| #2 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at 8/29/2007 3:44:35 PM |
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its been said on these comment pages many times... that when unix's share dwindles... linux gains will stop.
linux never gained share at windows expense. it was a fantasy (wet dream actually) of linux supporters. |
| #3 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 8/29/2007 3:46:49 PM |
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#1: There you are. I thought maybe you went off your meds and had a freak-out. Either that or the MS news has been so bad lately that you wanted to keep a low profile. Hill Air Force Base seems to think Linux is pretty good (they were having stability & cost problems with Windows):
http://www.gcn.com/print/26_16/44607-1.html No comment on the WGA fsckup? No comment on MS blatantly buying ISO votes? No comment on the myriad Vista patches released today? No comment on GigE file copies using half of your CPU, or media player killing your throughput? |
| #4 By 9589 (68.17.52.2) at 8/29/2007 4:44:31 PM |
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NotParker is right. Medium and large companies rarely purchase the OS and/or applications through their hardware vendor(s). It just doesn't make sense to do so.
Also, in larger companies, virtualization is being used quite extensively. We have over 2000 virtualized "work loads" (an OS and an application) up and running and expect that near 100% of new applications will run in a virtualized workload environment. Meanwhile, as hardware becomes dated, new hardware is being purchased and the application, that was running on the older hardware, is being moved to the new hardware and is being virtualized. Within three years, we will approach 100% virtualization across our distributed systems computing effort. Nevertheless, each workload requires an OS and in 95% of the cases that OS is Microsoft Server 2003. We are able to virtualize 10-25 workloads per server (usually a Dell PE6950/6850 or HP DL585/580) coupled with redundant fibre channel storage systems. Our virtualization product of choice is VMware ESX 3.01 and VMware VirtualCenter 2.0. |
| #5 By 32132 (142.32.208.232) at 8/29/2007 5:16:37 PM |
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#4 We are doing ESX on a smaller scale than you. But eventually every central server will be virtualized except for SQL and Exchange. And they will be done eventually.
Unfortuately our WAN is to slow to virtualize our school-based servers. #3 I'm trying not to respond to morons. Its such a waste of time. |
| #6 By 15406 (74.104.251.89) at 8/29/2007 8:30:19 PM |
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#5: Or when you have absolutely nothing you can say without looking silly. Scratch that, you say silly things all the time.
"Compare those figures to $1.8 billion for Linux-based server revenue in the second quarter, which had 19% growth year over year, according to IDC. Linux servers now represent 13.6% of all server revenue." Yeah, Linux is on its last legs. MS must be whistling past the graveyard if a small gain is newsworthy. |
| #7 By 32132 (66.183.171.69) at 8/29/2007 9:36:44 PM |
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Linux grew 19% in a year. Windows grew the same amount in a quarter.
"According to IDC, Windows worldwide server revenue grew 18.7% to $5 billion in the second quarter. The Microsoft OS gained 4 points of market share by revenue. Windows servers accounted for 38.2% of all revenue. Microsoft plans to release its Server 2008 early next year. " 4 points growth for Windows. Less than 1 point for Linux. And all that with an OS that is almost 5 years old (yes, R2 came out more recently, but it wasn't a big change). |
| #8 By 65179 (221.128.147.238) at 8/29/2007 11:05:36 PM |
| I've nothing against Linux but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2008 is simply too amazing and sports a large number of new features. |
| #9 By 10748 (134.187.163.50) at 8/30/2007 1:13:43 PM |
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Wow... it just hit me... Latch is insane.... crazy fanboy... amazing I hadn't noticed it before...
I thought he was reasonable before... at least sometimes but... whoa.... |
| #10 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 8/30/2007 3:20:26 PM |
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#9: I'm insane for countering nonsense like "The Linux fad is waning"??? OK.
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| #11 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at 8/31/2007 4:15:14 AM |
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latch, countering is one thing. but sometimes it may be best to sit quietly than to sound so feeble.
yeah yeah, apply my own words to this post. your tune is T I R E D. "countering nonsense" You find any nonsense in post #7? Or is that one you choose to "sit quietly" on? |
| #12 By 23275 (24.179.4.158) at 9/3/2007 12:35:01 AM |
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#9, I don't think Latch is insane - he's misguided, young and angry. He thinks shaming large companies into behaving like unsuccessful companies, or victims is good for people - regardless of how the markets decide things. According to Latch, Microsoft, Windows and Windows Server always have been dominant in the markets and that their "monopoly" has "always existed" and that the "market" NEVER reacted in ways that made Microsoft's desktop and productivity software so popular - just like Microsoft's servers were always so strong and so appealing that the free markets just flocked to them overnight....
Tough minded kids at Microsoft never existed - ever and they never ever started from an idea and that whole "computer in every home" thing was never an idea - it just always was.... And the massive ecosystem fueling it all... well that was all just ill-gotten stuff, right there... - it never resulted in the trillions in global value, or the removal of barriers to just about all that ever existed, oh no.... in Latch Land; in opposite world, none of that ever had to be built - it all just was and big ole nasty Microsoft just fell into owing it and their shills like myself are just pure'D evil gazillionaires that need to be taxed death so guys like Latch can feel good again. Oh... and it's all supposed to be ad supported - after all, Google is such a great example of how to do it all juuuuusssst riiiigghhht... <I'd rather drill holes in my head all day than use Google anything....> <Do they not realize that they have about three more years and they're done - obviated and utterly so>. |
| #13 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at 9/3/2007 1:28:26 AM |
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Lord,
Grant my prayer today, that I may die one day and live in latch land... where all is good and evil is vanquished. -amen This post was edited by mooresa56 on Monday, September 03, 2007 at 01:29. |
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