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News :: Linux Server Sales up a Jawdropping 90%
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For some businesses, the single most important factor about an operating system is its cost. And while Windows and Linux adherents debate non-stop over which offers a lower TCO, the marketplace -- based on server growth -- already has decided it is Linux.
Statistics about dramatic Linux sales growth are numerous, but here is one of the most telling: Sales of Linux servers in the U.S. grew a jaw-dropping 90 percent in Q4 of 2002 compared with the same period the previous year, says Gartner Dataquest. And that was a period in which overall server sales inched up a mere 5 percent versus a year earlier. |
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