Windows Now Top Server OS
Slashdot reports that in 2005 Windows edged out Unix for the first time ever as the top server operating system. Manufacturers sold $17.7 billion of Windows servers while selling $17.5 billion of Unix servers. As reported by Cnet, this is the first time since IDC started tracking in 1996 that anyone has displaced Unix. Meanwhile, Linux server sales grew from $4.3 to $5.3 billion from 2004 to 2005.
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Comment by Stu | February 22, 2006
Unix servers are generally cheaper than similar Windows servers. So in number, *nix should still beat Windows.
Besides, aren’t there any empty servers sold, which people install some kind of *nix on? I wonder.
Comment by Tim | February 22, 2006