Grrr... Apple in the wrong place at the wrong time again!!!

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Thanks to SCO's lawsuit against Linux, the server market is making a drastic swing... In July, 5% of the server market was windows... now it is 10%. Do you think XServe is being overlooked because its a G4 rather than a G5.



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...6&sid=96120750





Come on Apple!!! On a side note, I would guess theres a SCO CEO headed for a high position in Microsoft. Sneaky....

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    zozo Posts: 3,117member
    decisions like servers are done MONTHS ahead... not just on a whil... normally.



    I doubt the SCO affair has anything to do with it.



    Plus, its the Hardware Manufacturers that determine this. If DELL, for example, is doing a great job at selling Servers, then you'll see a rise in Windows Servers probably (seeing they're hand in hand)
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    stupider...likeafoxstupider...likeafox Posts: 1,618member
    First up, it's not the server market, it's the number of websites hosted. When a big hosting provider switches it can mean hundreds of machines and thousands of crappy no-content websites switching at once.



    Next, window's market share hasn't doubled. Windows 2003 Server has doubled it's share, with half of the new websites previously hosted on another version of the Windows OS.



    Finally, only 5% of the Windows 2003 Server gain was at the expense of Linux. But that's just a statistic, it doesn't mean people were actually wiping Linux machines to install Windows 2003 Server. It just means that the size and relative carve-up of the web-hosting market changed and Linux is doing slightly less well relative to Windows than it was before, while the windows share has shifted internally towards 2003, and away from NT, 2000 etc. (but, I repeat, only in number of websites hosted, see point one).
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    torifiletorifile Posts: 4,024member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by stupider...likeafox

    First up, it's not the server market, it's the number of websites hosted. When a big hosting provider switches it can mean hundreds of machines and thousands of crappy no-content websites switching at once.



    Next, window's market share hasn't doubled. Windows 2003 Server has doubled it's share, with half of the new websites previously hosted on another version of the Windows OS.



    Finally, only 5% of the Windows 2003 Server gain was at the expense of Linux. But that's just a statistic, it doesn't mean people were actually wiping Linux machines to install Windows 2003 Server. It just means that the size and relative carve-up of the web-hosting market changed and Linux is doing slightly less well relative to Windows than it was before, while the windows share has shifted internally towards 2003, and away from NT, 2000 etc. (but, I repeat, only in number of websites hosted, see point one).



    True on all counts. Here's the linkage.



    However, overall Windows webservers are still declining. Give me enough data and I'll tell you anything you want. Statistics are so often misused it's not even funny. This means nothing.
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