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Server Wars
"Microsoft is moving into a 'dominant role' in the server market, says IDC, 'even as Linux grows.' Which is an intriguing headline to the research outfit's take on the 2002 operating system market, but who's winning? The data IDC puts forward perhaps speaks of a more even match than 'dominant role' suggests. The company notes that Microsoft's share of new server licence shipments grew from 50.5 per cent in 2001 to 55.1 per cent in 2002, while paid for (aha...) Linux server licences took 23.1 per cent of the market. The paid for market itself grew 9.6 per cent."
If you listen only to the Linux Weenies, you would think that Linux has 99 percent of the server market. As usual the public perception of reality is tainted by the bullshit shoveled from the pro-Linux media daily. Even the rabidly Pro Linux, Anti-Microsoft Register, is having to admit that public perception and reality are far apart. Of course in their never ending crusade to make Linux something more than it is, they make numerous excuses such as that only paid copies of Linux were counted. True, but where I went to school,55.1 percent was still a majority. (LP)
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