On 2006-03-30, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> __/ [ B Gruff ] on Thursday 30 March 2006 18:22 \__
>
>> On Thursday 30 March 2006 16:05 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>>
>>> "33.6% of servers sold in Q4 2005 were Windows servers"
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>> Please forgive my ignorance, but if one third of servers sold were Windows
>> servers, what were the other two thirds of servers sold?
>
>
> The revenue from Unix is going down while Microsoft's goes up by a margin.
> Linux goes up in big numbers, despite it being free. Microsoft possibly lead
Since a PC can now do the jobs that used to require a highly
proprietary RISC solution, ANY x86 based competitor to the traditional
Unix vendors is going to drive their prices down.
> in terms of /revenue/ because their servers are overpriced. In terms of
> numbers, they are nowhere to be seen. Over here, the trend is that of
> replacing ever-crashing Windows servers with Linux.
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