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Windows Finally Beats Unix, But Linux Is Coming on Strong
By Larry Hendrick | February 24, 2006
The phrase I highlighed is the key to this news story. I wondered how Microsoft had surpassed the UNIX/LINUX installs. Short answer is they didn’t. This report is for orders of new servers with the OS pre-installed from the manufacturer.
My company is a Dell reseller, and a large number of our installations are LINUX based, but when we order servers from Dell, we designate “NO OS” and install our own Debian load. In talking to lots of different techs and salesmen at other locations, this is a common practice.
This will allow Microsoft to roar loudly for a period of time, but those in the know will know the whole story or “the rest of the story” as Paul Harvey would say.
Windows Finally Beats Unix, But Linux Is Coming on Strong
Well, it finally happened.
After years of “Unix is sick,” “Unix is dying” and “Unix is dead” headlines, Windows, according to IDC, has finally overtaken Unix as the No. 1 pre-installed server operating system.
This may come as a surprise to some people, who’ve assumed that Windows has been No. 1 for quite some time. Nope. Windows has been No. 2 on servers for ages.
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