Survey shows code changes in the server OS market - enterprise it planet

By Drew Robb

Frodo versus Lord Sauron; Darth Vader vs. Luke Skywalker: popular culture is filled with titanic struggles between dueling forces. Sometimes, the fight for the OS would win the server market, Windows or Linux, has been seen in a similarly incandescent light.

But hats you before a simplistic black and white illustration. Finally, Apple, was for decades represented as a carrier of the sword of truth. Yet his has overwhelming iPhone/iPod/iPad success caused some believe to lose. You can not good if you are in the world's largest technology company. So, some believe that Apple on the dark side - has been moved and so it finally could go for Linux as a server OS if it is as popular as some expect.

Ten years back, Linux occupied advocates of the open-source OS as the good man in the white hat square. But then just about all in the X 86 field uses a Microsoft System in their servers. Very few relative manipulated with Linux.

What makes a difference of a decade. According to a recent survey of Gabriel Consulting Group (GCC) of Beaverton, OR has Linux the margins in the mainstream shifts.

"Linux is used to a certain degree of 90% of GCG's enterprise IT respondents and the majority see their use increase significantly," said Dan olds, analyst at GCG. "This shows how far Linux has come in the last decade."

If this trend continues, we will perhaps eventually the roles with Linux is not only cool, but also with by far the largest market share vice versa see. If so, it will be interesting to see if popular opinion against - applies maybe even casting Linux as a villain of the piece. She would not be an interesting scenario!

The GCG survey asked a total 199 organizations (from large companies to a SMB) indicating the x 86 operating systems that you are currently using, and how they expect, that your use of change in the course of time. It focuses on Microsoft, Linux and Solaris64 of Oracle (formerly Sun Microsystems).

The figure is 90% for Linux usage study from 84% in the previous year. Linux clearly to gather steam. But deep immersion in the numbers shows that Linux is not fully dominate the market. 10% of respondents use not Linux, for example, at all. Olds said, that this tends to be small data centers in very small organizations, which tend to run only Microsoft operating systems. And while most companies run some Linux, only 28% said that dominated Linux usage on the server side, meaning that they run Linux on more than 50 percent of their servers.

The GCG survey saw future use expectations. "Customers in our survey more Linux in the near future to be used", said olds. "Only 10% expect less Linux, while more than half say that she should be used more or much more Linux in the course of time."

He also noted that a year ago only 42% said she would use more Linux, and 14% said less.

So all what that this means that Microsoft will lose right? Not necessarily.

GCG reported that Microsoft server operating systems is still heavily used. 60% of the respondents Microsoft environments that run most of their servers, and 87% have at least some systems run Microsoft products. The number of companies with a Microsoft server OS has shifted from 6% in 2009 to 13% in 2010.

Furthermore, the number has increased expected reduce their Windows Server operating system use next year by 20% to 24%.

"A couple of data points not necessarily to mark a trend, but it bear watching," said olds. On the plus side for Windows, see "26% to other Windows Server operating systems in their organization provide;" "About half of them see stay use at the same level."

The bottom line in the server OS market: the case for some time to come the great majority of users coexisting Windows and Linux environments and still have.

It appears to be progress in the Linux server adoption in the company relentlessly. According to IDC, Linux servers grew 29.3% ($2.5 billion) quarter quarter Q4 2010 revenue from the sale. This means that Linux servers now represent one-quarter 17.0% of all server revenue more than 450,000 devices. In the same period but, Microsoft Windows Server revenue increased by 16.8% ($6.3 billion) and now 42.1% of the market with 1.5 million server shipments, which is a record or the Windows Server operating system.

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