Tuesday, January 1, 2008

2012 Server OS Projections (Gartner)

I am still catching up on my holiday reading. I was thumbing through the Processor Magazine (Dec 21, 2007 issue) and stumbled upon this blurb from a Gartner report:

Windows, Linux To Grow In Server Market Share

The Windows and Linux operating systems both gained market share in the data center server market, according to Gartner. This year, Windows has about $19.6 billion of the overall $54 billion server operating system market, Gartner says, with Windows’ share expected to grow to $22.2 billion by 2012. Linux’s market share is expected to grow from its current $8.6 billion this year to about $12.2 billion in 2012. Gartner expects Unix’s share to drop slightly over the same period, from $16.4 billion this year to $16 billion by 2012.


It will be interesting to see how the Unix market responds to this. I think the most notable players, namely Sun, are already trying to get in front of this with OpenSolaris, etc.

November 2007 : Top 10 US Market Share Search Engines

November 2007 top 10 US search market share report and the latest market trend information. Google remained in the number 1 position and its market share grew 2.2%, while Yahoo continues to struggle with its turn around. It remains to be seen what December's numbers will look like since Yahoo gets a lot of Marketplace/Yahoo Stores business.

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