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Originally Posted by Edward M. Grant
Windows has only ever been a major player on the desktop, which is now a declining market.
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first set of numbers i found from a search
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Specifically, IDC found that "Linux server demand was positively impacted by high performance computing (HPC) and cloud infrastructure deployments, as hardware revenue improved 2.2% year over year in 4Q11 to $2.6 billion. Linux servers now represent 18.4% of all server revenue, up 1.7 points when compared with the fourth quarter of 2010.
Its competitors? "Windows server demand subsided slightly in 4Q11 as hardware revenue decreased 1.5% year over year. Quarterly revenue of $6.5 billion for Windows servers represented 45.8% of overall quarterly factory revenue, up 2.6 points over the prior year's quarter."
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-sourc...hrinking/10616
ahh here's some current numbers
http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24136113
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Linux server demand was positively impacted by high performance computing (HPC) and cloud infrastructure deployments, as hardware revenue improved 3.4% year over year in 1Q13 to $2.5 billion. Linux servers now represent 23.1% of all server revenue, up 2.5 points when compared with the first quarter of 2012.
Microsoft Windows server hardware revenue declined 4.2% year over year in 1Q13 with quarterly server hardware revenue totaling $5.7 billion representing 52.2% of overall quarterly factory revenue, up 1.9 points over the prior year's quarter.
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