"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=10325
>
> 33.6% of servers sold in Q4 2005 were Windows servers
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> |"Linux servers generated $1.6 bln in quarterly revenue, the 14th
> consecutive
> |quarter of double-digit growth, with YTY revenue growth of 20.8%. For
> the
> |full year, Linux server revenues were $5.7 bln, placing it in third
> place
> |for the first time from an operating system perspective as customers
> |continued to expand the role of Linux servers into an increasingly
> wider
> |array of commercial and technical workloads."
> `----
Now before Ray wets himself over this apparent volume number, understand
the ZDNet flacks problem with understanding. The actual statement is:
"Windows servers accounted for $4.9 bln in Q4 2005, representing 33.6%
of quarterly server market revenue. "
That's bucks, not units. Many of the units in the market are mainframes
and RISC machines, making the units number for Windows servers much
higher than the third of the market assigned. Most think it is over
half the units. Doesn't matter on the bottom line, but don't have any
false hopes.
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