RE: LinTard Delusions

My site is on Linux; and that's where it is staying!

"HangEveryRepubliKKKan" wrote:

> Whatever became of the Lintard Delusions of just 300 days
> ago which was that Vista was a complete failure that was going to destroy
> Microsoft and that the Lintard OS was going to replace Windows in the coming
> year as the new standard in destip computing?
>
> Meanwhile Microsoft profits are up 23% and Windows is now eating away at
> what remains of the market share the Lintard OS has left.
>
> Didn't work out the way you Tard Genius's thought did it?
> Ahahahahahahahahahahahaahh
>
> Linux Losing Market Share to Windows Server
> By Peter Galli
> October 25, 2007
>
> Experts say that migrations from Unix to Linux have slowed down
> because all the low-hanging fruit has now been picked.
>
> Linux growth in the U.S. x86 server market has, over the past six
> quarters, started to falter and reverse its positive course relative
> to Windows Server and the market as a whole.
>
> ADVERTISEMENT The annual rate at which Linux is growing in the x86
> server space has fallen from around 53 percent in 2003, when Windows
> Server growth was in the mid-20 percent range, to a negative 4
> percent growth in calendar year 2006, IDC Quarterly Server Tracker
> figures show.
>
> Over the same time period, Windows has continued to report positive
> annual growth, outpacing the total growth rate in the x86 market by
> more than 4 percent in 2006, indicating that Linux has actually lost
> market share to Windows Server over this time.
>
> The same holds true for worldwide Linux x86 server shipments, which
> dropped from the huge annual growth rate of about 45 percent is 2003
> to growth of less than 10 percent in 2006, the IDC figures show.
> One of the biggest reasons for this is that the migrations from Unix
> to Linux have slowed down markedly.
>
> "We have seen the rate of migration from Unix slow over the past few
> quarters," IDC analyst Matt Eastwood told eWEEK. "In my view this is
> because much of the low-hanging fruit has been moved and the
> applications that remain on Unix are stickier because they are seen
> as business critical and more political candidates for migration
> overall."
>
> IDC analyst Al Gillen pointed out that the number of servers shipped
> does not perfectly equal the number of operating systems in the
> market. This is particularly the case with Linux where a substantial
> portion of the overall market opportunity comes from deployments
> aboard recycled servers, PCs and workstations deployed as servers,
> and Linux deployed as a guest operating system.
>
> "This does not contradict any trending taking place on server
> hardware," Gillen said.
>
> He added: "But we do need to remember that the Linux software
> ecosystem does not track exactly the same as does x86 hardware
> shipments."
>
> Click here to read more about how Windows Server is wooing away
> Linux customers.
>
> Margaret Lewis, the director of commercial solutions for AMD in
> Austin, Texas, has also noticed the slowdown in Linux growth over
> the past few quarters.
>
> In 2000, Windows comprised about half of the server operating system
> market, followed by Unix and Netware at about 17 percent each and
> Linux reaching towards 10 percent, she said, noting that today
> Windows owns about 70 percent, Linux about 20 percent, with Unix
> below 10 percent and Netware barely registering.
>
> "Looking at these large operating system market swings, you could
> draw the conclusion that Linux has gotten the 'low-hanging fruit' in
> terms of migration," Lewis said.
>
> "Without the larger pool of Unix and NetWare users who are ripe for
> migration, there is not quite the level of fuel. You could assume
> that Linux is now ready to settle down to a more regular growth
> curve representative of a more mature technology."
>
> The fact that Windows has maintained a steady growth rate over this
> same time frame could be the result of companies expanding their
> Windows-based IT infrastructure to meet the demands of users who
> always want to be online, she said.
>
> "Windows-based Web hosting sites are experiencing strong growth, the
> Exchange infrastructure is expanding to offer unified messaging and
> many small businesses are moving to a real server infrastructure for
> basic infrastructure instead of a network of desktops," Lewis said.
> Read more here about how some Windows Server 2008 features address
> the Linux challenge.
>
> Bill Hilf, general manager of Windows Server marketing and platform
> strategy at Microsoft in Redmond, Wash., has also noticed these
> trends, and says that increased customer adoption of Windows Server
> 2003 in a broad range of enterprise scenarios is driving significant
> growth of that business.
>
> "I spend a lot of time talking with both Linux and Windows customers
> and partners, and the feedback that I hear is that, in volume, Linux
> is primarily deployed in two workloads-high-performance computing
> and as Web servers," Hilf told eWEEK.
>
> "It appears that Linux server growth is moderating considerably and,
> while it's certainly still a player, it's not being considered
> across the broad range of workloads that Windows Server is, from ERP
> to CRM to messaging and collaboration to core infrastructure like
> file and print," he said.
>
> Check out eWEEK.com's Linux & Open Source Center for the latest
> open-source news, reviews and analysis.
>
>
>
>
>
>