News Comment This is a comment on news story: Linux Losing Market Share to Windows Server It's a reply to comment: Increase not as big as they say by: UK MAdMaN  Dell have said they're selling more Linux servers than Windows ones. Bill Hilf says Linux is being used in high-performance computing, but not for messaging, collaboration, file and print sharing. I don't know about him, but if I ran a print shop, I'd want my servers to be high performance so they could handle all the print jobs sent to them. I'd like to know how this data was recorded, because as we know Linux is often installed on machines that used to run Windows but don't any more as Microsoft stopped supporting the version the company was running (i.e. NT, 2000). These will be tracked as Windows servers, not Linux. Also, some companies deal with suppliers that only sell servers preloaded with Windows. When they get these servers they remove Windows and install Linux on them. Netcraft's recent tracking shows that Linux web server use has dropped, until you take into account the fact that they're no longer tracking Google's servers. Most of the growth of Windows-based servers will be coming from existing Windows users that need the extra power after upgrading to a newer version of Windows (we all know how bad a new version of Windows is on processor and RAM compared to the previous version). There's less incentive for Linux users to do this as you can just install a minimal distro that won't tax the server. Just a few things to think about.
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