Linux doomed, shocka

26 Oct 2007 | 13:34 BST

By Andrew Thomas

LINUX MARKET SHARE IS DOWN four percent in 2006, according to IDC figures. Over the last 18 months, Linux growth on servers - which had peaked at 53 percent in 2003 - has now gone negative as Windows Server shipments exceeded the number of X86 server shipments in the US.

Worldwide, Linux server growth have plummeted from 45 percent in 2003 to less than 10 percent last year. IDC says that this is because migrations from Unix to Linux have slowed down markedly and that all the low-hanging fruit has been picked off, resulting in Windows gaining market share at Linux' expense.

In 2000, Windows had about half the server operating system market, followed by Unix and Netware on 17 percent each with Linux around 10 percent. Today Windows has 70 percent, Linux about 20 percent, with Unix below 10 percent and Netware pushing up the daisies. µ

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