Windows Servers Neck and Neck with Unix Servers

BrainSurgeon writes "According to the Register, Windows based servers are now even with Unix based servers in terms of sales for the first time ever." From the article: "In an overall up server market, IDC counted $4.2bn worth of Microsoft Windows server sales on the back of 12 percent growth. Total Unix sales also hit $4.2bn in the period, IDC said, on 3 per cent revenue growth. Those totals left Microsoft and Unix systems holding 35 per cent of the server market each."

Neck and Neck

[Ed Thomson]

It is not neck and neck anymore, I just brought a windows server so Windows wins by massive margin of US$4,000.

but the workload is....

[wardk]

so with the same number of servers, the load they are processing is 50-50 too, right?

Here are some official numbers from the WGAF 2005 Study of total workload being handled on the net.

Unix 85%
Windows 10%
Other 5%

HOWEVER, these numbers get funny when you factor in computing time spend running malware.

Windows outperforms Unix and others in this important category. Truly Windows has no peers when executing excrement.

Unix .0001
Other .0002
Windows 99.9997

These are REAL NUMBERS folks. every one of them. even the 7

You, infidel! Jihad!

[Anonymous Coward]

Your menu of options START today, with one bomb detonated each week for non-compliance! [islamicanews.com]

You may have not payed for the first IIS, or the second...or the seventh IIS, but count on my mother's prayer rug you will pay for IIS this time; and if you don't, we'll catch you and make you pay for IIS 8...and when your children are caught, we will force them to pay for IIS69 no matter how much you don't need the bundled blonde wig and car tires for the MS Car, we'll have the DMV and the United Arab Homeland Security Imperial Council charge your Microsoft Security account and GATT2 World Freedom account!! By the name of God written on my left hand, I will wipe you and your seed off the face of the earth!

Re:Pun?

[Hatta]

Do blade servers run hot? Or do the British heat their knives over an open flame? Can someone explain to me what the pun is in this sentence???

Maybe he's just been doing hot knives. [overgrow.com]

Re:Okay so...

[Anonymous Coward]

What the heck is running the other 30%?
Cleary Amiga.

Quick!

[Jozer99]

Quick! Somebody buy another server and break the tie!

Huh?

[Mr. Underbridge]

10 idiots want to buy a lemon for $10/each and 100 people buy a tasty pear for $1/each.

Why the hell would you run a server on Pear? And what's Lemon, a BeOS emulator?

Re:Okay so...

[PyroMosh]

What do you think they run, pixie dust?

Well, actually... yes [ibm.com].

Re:Okay so...

[Curtman]

Hahahahaha.. Good one.

Okay, so the hard drive is made of pixie dust.. Next thing you'll be telling me they have a genie [ibm.com] in there too.

Fuck. Maybe I should have thought this through first.