Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> HP keeps its Linux edge with BladeSystem
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| When you look at Linux on the high end, on the mainframe, Linux is
>| on 20% or so of the servers going out the door today. Yet when you
>| look to the blade server, [Linux] is half the market at roughly 40%
>| to 50%. There is just this affinity for Linux and the blade together
>| in a lot of high-performance computing [HPC] environments.
> `----
>
> http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1247040,00.html?track=sy184
> http://tinyurl.com/2euozw
The numbers just keep getting more convincing. The Blade Server market
is one of the few which are able to provide useful stats, since most
blades are not "pre-installed" with Windows, rather, they get whatever
the customer wants on them. 40% to 50% of that market is a sound
achievement, particularly when you consider that in many cases, blade
servers are used to consolidate multiple stand-alone machines using
virtualisation layers, which tends to reduce the number of installed
instances anyway.
I think we can expect to see these numbers continuing to look better for
the linux world.
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