With the server market's heavy pricing pressure, revenue growth has typically been far less than unit shipment growth--when any revenue growth could be found in the last three difficult years. But in Linux servers, revenue growth outpaced unit shipments, according to fourth-quarter figures from market research firm IDC.

Linux server shipments grew 63 percent to $950 million from the fourth quarter of 2002 to the fourth quarter of 2003, IDC said. At the same time, unit shipments grew 53 percent to about 250,000.

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