Comment of the Day #2, November 29, 2005

Posted by tuxchick on Nov 29, 2005 9:46 AM
LXer.com; By Dinotrac

[Dinotrac did some independent research and analysis, instead of accepting the article's premise like a good little consumer. -tuxchick]

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.

See the article, thread, and complete comment here.

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Subject Topic Starter Replies Views Last Post
Microsoft's grand vision tadelste 19 1,036 Nov 30, 2005 3:27 AM
Not a pipe dream, but a nightmare ralph 1 874 Nov 29, 2005 12:36 PM
Some further calculation mvermeer 0 503 Nov 29, 2005 10:50 AM

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