news.cnet.com — According to IDC, Linux is booming. At just 9.4 percent of the overall server market in terms of revenue in 2007, Linux has now climbed to 13.4%of the overall server market, with Unix at 7.7% and Windows at 36.5%. If Linux server vendors want to continue to grow, at some point they're going to have to come to grips with Windows
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rowjimmyAug 29, 2008
exactly . i sent an email to the actual authors of the study - <a class="user" href="http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS21399008">http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS2139 ...</a> - asking this very question. if they included OS cost in calculating revenue totals, the numbers are going to be horribly skewed towards weighting servers running proprietary os's much higher than servers running foss os's. if this is the case, it shows a serious flaw in using traditional market-style metrics to measure FOSS usage
ethana2Aug 29, 2008
'market' may not be the word you're looking for, but yeah, this household is 100% ubuntu..
Closed AccountAug 29, 2008
Kubuntu Hardy Heron is now my primary boot image.
davxAug 29, 2008
They sure have a lot of 'software engineers' on the payroll. I guess those guys aren't real, only "real" programmers are OSS people?
noredAug 29, 2008
Well, it only happens when you pop the clutch too soon. It can be very tricky, but you get the hang of it.