Linux server revenue growth

[MyWorld]

Let me start by saying that I so not care much about all these statistics measure company X against company Y. "This is the year for the Linux (desktop, server, gaming, Armageddon, whatever)" is just plain stupid and hurting Linux more than helping, IMHO wrote by total ignorant journalists.

This however is interesting and if there is still an argument that you cannot profit from FOSS, then you are doing it wrong!

From the 'Linux = $$' files:

IDC is out with its first quarter 2012 global server stats study and the numbers look good for Linux.

While overall global server revenues were down, Linux server revenues were up.

According to IDC, Linux servers generated $2.4 billion in revenue for vendors in the first quarter of 2012. That's a 16.0 percent growth rate, which is better than the 1.3 percent revenue growth rate for Windows servers.

Linux still has a lot of room to grow, as Linux servers now account for 20.7 percent of global server revenues. In contrast, Windows revenues account for 50.2 percent of global server revenues. Unix represents 18.3 percent.

That's right, Linux server revenues are greater than Unix (and yeaah Unix servers are a whole lot more $$).

The fact that Windows still holds the majority of the server market (by revenue) is a fact that I'd bet is likely to change inside of this calendar year as Linux continues to grow fast.

Remember of course, that IDC can't track servers that have been 're-purposed' as Linux server or those servers where companies put Linux on it themselves, so the true numbers might be larger. Revenue numbers also cannot account for 'free' deployments of Linux, such as CentOS which are extremely common on hosting infrastructure.

http://www.internetnews.com/blog/sk...ter-than-windows-hit-2.4-billion-in-1q12.html

 

[ponder]

Yeah the numbers are greater than that. Not everyone buys servers with linux preinstalled and it would be damn hard to determine linux deployment inside corporations world wide.

 

[MapleTel]

Simply - you are doing it wrong if you do not profit from FOSS (e.g. Linux) - investigate their revenue source lines.... Support is clearly not the major source of income. Think out-of-the box, starting with google (having a google search button), which applications are specially "loaded" .... and be clever when looking at potential revenue sources.