Linux doomed, shocka
Windows Server on the rise
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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Hmmmmm
Interesting that the visitor stats for our servers show a large increase in linux OS's and a reduction in windows based OS's...Maybe it's just our sites, but... I doubt it
Linux is the future, everything you can do in windows can now be done in Linux, and with Ubuntu, it's all set up for you, no need to muck on like in windows, no need to activate... Oh, and more secure and stable :)
No wonder more and more users are removing windows.
Steve!
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So, are these the same figures...
Calculated in the same way that had us believe that windows servers were on the rise because it was decided that each and every single MySpace page was a separate website and the couple million of them needed to be counted as windows servers, even if they are only hosted on a few physical machines?http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/12/search-shoot
If that's the case, Jobs could make Mac the biggest server vendor pretty quickly by hosting every PR piece that swoons over them on a "separate" website... apple.com/fanboy.htm.
Wait
Doesn't your article say that linux was at 10% in 2000 and now its 20% today?Why is that bad? Just because people are using Windows more doesn't mean Linux is doing worse. This isn't mercantilism.
w2k3 ftw!
"Linux is the future, everything you can do in windows can now be done in Linux"LAMO!
Look you are not wrong about the future, but w2k3 for the win! I know _why_ w2k3 gained...I don't have time for the war stories.
Open sauce can make such a mess in my kitchen. Windows may suck, but myself and other admins have gotten down-pat how to make the bitch work reliably.
Linux, I still love you, you free little flakey bi-polar brat.
Units or dollars
The e-week article is an excellent example of crap journalism; I doubt they're doing much more than rewriting a press release here. They don't really state definitively if they're talking about dollars or units. Without that being clarified, the article is essentially meaningless.I've seen an article with similar figures, but were discussing dollars spent. Here, it's difficult to tell whether they're discussing relative popularity or financial success. If they're talking financial success, it's very much an apples-oranges comparison for a variety of reasons. If they're talking about relative popularity, it'd be interesting to figure out how they measure it - Windows is easy because of the number of licenses sold, but quite a few companies use Ubuntu or CentOS which is more difficult to track. It gets even more fun when you throw in virtualization - I often run Windows and Linux on the same box under VMWare...
Linux dark matter
I think Linux market share continues to be underestimated.All my clients have bought servers (and some desktops) without operating systems, on which we then stuck on the Linux distro of our choice. How would IDC account for a situation like that? I suspect that they don't.
The trouble with this is that it encourages complacency on the part of Microsoft and its backers. Then they wake up one day and discover their market share is somewhat smaller than they thought it was. That will be quite a shock.
It's dollars
If you read the other eweek articles that this eweek article links to, it seems to be that they're comparing dollars. In 2007, Windows finally had a bigger growth percentage in the number of dollars being spent on their server software, vs the percent growth in the number of dollars spent on linux server software.In my opinion, SUSE isn't as good as other distributions, and Red Hat is pretty crappy (haven't tried fedora though). Those are they only two I know of that charge fees that are anywhere close to Microsoft. Unless you need a platform with official Oracle support, Ubuntu is great and available for free. I don't doubt that revenues for Linux have dropped, while market share increased.
Yes, Microsoft's server revenue growth has outpaced the x86 server revenue growth by 4%, but virtual machines are becoming quite common. So common, that I think only 4% could be bad news. Linux, on the other hand, doesn't need virtual machines as badly because it doesn't require as many resources to log in and take out a rogue process.
As for sheer numbers of servers, don't most of the home NAS appliances run Linux? If home routers got included as well, Windows would look like the dying duck it deserves to be. Instead, I'm sure Microsoft is counting you as a new server every third driver upgrade that you perform.
IIS 7 Interesting
The company I work for uses a lot of different servers but the most interest right now is testing out Tomcat(on Windows) for JSP/Servlet and IIS7 for the modular(somewhat faster) design. The modular component is a real treat because new modules can make IIS do so much more than it previously could.Also, we're noticing that the windows servers have nearly equivalent performance with linux despite having a GUI resting on it. Not to mention the GUI for running maintainance tasks are worlds easier than those on linux. Also, the IT guys can have a fully ready WIN2K3 on a new box with all the goodies within two hour of receiving it.
Apache and linux
Do you remember one of last web servers market survey? IIS grows.Most of IISs were located in China. And on which OS IIS run? Im curious how much of these systems are legal.
It is looking serious, but...
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