Linux Server Sales Top $1 Billion

linuxwrangler writes "InfoWorld is reporting that IDC's report on Q3 server sales shows that Linux server revenue topped $1 billion for the first time. Linux servers showed year-over-year gain of 42.6 percent. Windows server revenue grew by 13.3 percent year-over-year while the mid-range server marked dominated by Sun showed a 10.2 percent decline this quarter."

Do software licenses count?

[vasqzr]

We always end up spending just as much in software licenses as we do on the hardware when we buy a server.

stats!

[pizza_milkshake]

wow, that proves that linux is 3.203007518796992481203007518797 times better than windows. finally, this will silence those capitalists in Redmond!

Linux moving up the food-chain

[bstadil]

By operating system, Linux grew by 42.6 per cent with unit shipments up by nearly a third. IDC said this is the ninth consecutive quarter of double digit growth.

Windows servers grew by 13.3 per cent, with units up 19.1% quarter on quarter, year on year

Some interesting Linux information can be gleamed from it. Look at the Volume growth vs. Value growth

You can see that Linux is not only growing very fast but moving up the food chain. Value is growing faster than units. Windows is increasingly relegated to the low end.