____/ [H]omer on Saturday 25 August 2007 00:02 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>> Server sales turn vendors into very happy bunnies
>>
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>> | X86 server sales generated 50 per cent of factory revenue for the first
>> | time, growing 16 per cent year on year. Sales of Windows servers grew by
>> | 14 per cent annually but Linux revs were up 34 per cent.
>> `----
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>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41894
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> When are we going to start seeing stats of deployment by units, rather
> than revenue? I think the results of *that* analysis would be rather
> more revealing.
Yes, Sam Hiser and I said exactly *that* when some morons in an 'open source'
blogs talked about money, money, money. Linux is about existence and scale of
use cannot be gauged. It's not all about revenue, which is easier to quantify.
How many Linux servers does Google have? Gartner estimated it was about 1
million, IIRC.
> Also, given the current virtualisation boom, how are the likes of the
> IDC going to justify their figures, given that one cluster may have
> several hundred OS instances? Does that count as one "server" or hundreds?
And guess what's being virtualised?
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