Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd Nov 2005 16:35 UTC
Microsoft Windows captured the lead for the first time in server operating systems during the third quarter, boosted by continued demand for inexpensive servers selling for less than $25000 (EUR 21190), according to a new report.
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One interesting thing about that article. Of the top 4 server companies - IBM, HP, Dell, Sun. Dell is the only one who doesn't have a Unix OS nor manufacture their own CPU... (though IBM and HP probably uses Intel and AMD cpus too.) It's neither hither nor dither - just thought that was kind of interesting.
Considering that Dell beat out Sun, there might be something to Intel vs. AMD cpus too.
As for Linux, I don't think that's really in the equation. If I'm a company who is willing to pay $25K for a server, would I skimp and install Debian or Suse? AIX, HP-UX, Solaris - they're all costly.