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06/13/2001 Archived Entry: "New report questions Linux server claims"

ZDNet: eWEEK: New report questions Linux server claims

A major disagreement is brewing about exactly what share of the server market Linux actually holds, and Microsoft Corp. is again an active player in the debate.

A recently released Gartner Dataquest report, sponsored by several companies including Microsoft, found that just 8.6 percent of server shipments in the U.S. during the third quarter of 2000 were Linux-based.
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But these numbers fly in the face of other research reports from such groups as International Data Corp. Dan Kusnetzky, an IDC analyst, told eWEEK that his company's provisional figures for 2000 showed that Linux as a server operating system -- regardless of the operating system or machine on which it was installed -- represented 27 percent of the total market, behind Windows at 41 percent.

Kusnetzky said there was a definite distinction between an actual server and server software that allowed machines to operate as servers.