Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 18:56:30 -0000 From: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> To: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>, Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Prevalence of FreeBSD and UNIX among servers Message-ID: <135510000.1007492189@lobster.originative.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3C0D1991.83D6EB6D@acuson.com> References: <00ef01c17cda$6b419760$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C0D1991.83D6EB6D@acuson.com>
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--On Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:44:33 -0800 David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> wrote: > Anthony Atkielski wrote: >> >> According to an article in BusinessWeek: >> >> http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_50/b3761094.htm >> >> Non-Linux versions of UNIX are expected to slip from 14% of the server >> market to 10% next year, and Linux is expected to grow from 27% to 32%. >> Is this really true? This would imply that organizations are actively >> junking UNIX systems such as FreeBSD to go to Linux, which I find >> extremely hard to believe (I can't think of any reason why anyone would >> want to junk any xxxBSD to install Linux, which seems like a step >> backwards). Anyone know where these figures are coming from, or how >> realistic they are? > > The use of statistics is very useful if you want to obscure the truth. > The server market is a dynamic and growing market. Market share is a > static number. I seriously doubt for a minute that anyone is dumping > FreeBSD for Linux. But it is entirely possible that people are deploying > Linux instead of FreeBSD on *new* servers. And it is likely (according > to rumour) that many old expensive Unix boxen are being replaced with > new cheap Linux boxen. The Netcraft web server survey provides useful, real world information on this subject. It's certainly the case that Windows is growing in the server market and that BSD is quite small. Subscribe to the Netcraft monthly newsletter if this sort of thing interests you. Paul Richards FreeBSD Services Ltd http://www.freebsd-services.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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