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		cabalamat on Feb 21, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No more desktop Linux systems in the German Foreig... I call bullshit on IDC's figures. If you take public-facing websites -- something that can be checked -- MS has a 20% market share[1]. Some of these are multiple sites on one server, and some are multiple servers on one site, which probably cancel each other out so c.286M sites is roughly the same number of servers. By contrast, IDC's figures are for a total of less than 2M servers sold per quarter. If each server lasts for 5 years, that means there are a total of 40M in use worldwide, which is way too low. 1. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/02/15/february-2011-w...

kenjackson on Feb 21, 2011 [–]

I don't see Linux share on that? I ask because we use Apache on WS08. I'm sure we're not the common case, but it would be useful to know if Apache==99% Linux or 75% Linux.

cabalamat on Feb 22, 2011 | [–]

I don't have figures either. I would guess that Linux' share of apache deployments is >75% but less than 99%.

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