A few quick calculations...
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| dinotrac Nov 28, 2005 6:14 PM EDT |
As no one article provides all of the information I wanted, I went to several different reports on the IDC information, pieced together a few things, and then did some calculations. The result makes it quite clear why Microsoft is concerned -- though certainly not as concerned as traditional Unix vendors should be. First, I composed a metric I called the ULW market share. It's based on the idc metrics, and corrected for non-Unix, non-Windows, non-Linux servers. The numbers -- based on Q3 year to year (I think -- without the actual IDC report, I'm not completely sure that all them apples is really apples rather than oranges): 2005: Windows $4.6B 46.5% ULW Linux $1.4B 14.1% ULW Unix $3.9B 39.4% ULW 2004: Windows $3.9B 44.3% ULW Linux $1.0B 11.4% ULW Unix $3.9B 44.3% ULW Here's the part that's really getting their goat: Year to Year growth in ULW share: Windows: 5.0% Linux: 23.7% And then, when you consider the great unreported "market", Linux uptake is huge and growing faster by far than Windows servers. The bottom line: A Microsoft monopoly in the server room is a pipe dream. Monopoly pricing for server products is a pipe dream. Microsoft's grand vision of the 90s, if it hasn't already failed, is crashing and burning. Remember: They didn't want to sell a lot of servers. They wanted to own the space. They don't, and they're not going to. |
| tuxchick Nov 28, 2005 7:02 PM EDT |
dino, that looks like a LXer Feature to me. |
| dinotrac Nov 28, 2005 7:34 PM EDT |
tuxchick - I wish I had the whole IDC report...not to mention reports for the last several years. I was actually pretty startled at the market share growth numbers. Old line Unix dropped like a rock -- share wise, nearly unchanged in actual revenue. I rather expected that at some point. Commodity Unixes like Linux and *bsd can fill in quite nicely for many Unix applications, and use the same basic skill sets, all at a commodity hardware cost. Hard to resist. A little surprising is that Microsoft growth seems to be going stagnant while Linux growth is going gangbusters -- and that's without even trying to account for "phantom" Linux installations. If Microsoft growth slows very much at all relative to Linux growth, Linux will start to gain more absolute revenue growth than Windows in addition to its percentage advantages. That ought to shiver some Redmond timbers. |
| mariuz Nov 29, 2005 11:00 PM EDT |
it's about The Windows Idiot Tax The Windows Idiot Tax: For those who still believe that running Windows instead of Linux is cheaper or more cost effective let me give you a real world scenario I discovered today. Windows: Server hardware 2 x $1250 = $2500 Windows Licenses 2 x $700 =$1400 User Cals 3 x $30 = $90 SQL Server 2000 Standard 1-cpu $1850 Windows TOTAL= $4840 Linux: Server hardware 2 x $1250 = $2500 RedHat download = free MySQL = free (non commercial use) Linux TOTAL=$2500 http://www.oneafrikan.com/archives/2005/11/23/the-windows-id... http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2005/11/th... |
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