Windows Server sales surpassed those of UNIX-based servers for the first time ever in 2005, according to IDC. The company reports that vendors sold $17.7 billion worth of Windows Server-based servers last year, compared with
$17.5 billion worth of UNIX servers and $5.3 billion worth of Linux servers. The overall server market grew 4.4 percent during this time period, IDC says. If these figures are true, I have to assume that the slow climb of Windows in the server market can be pinned at least partially on Linux, which gave UNIX users a UNIX-like system that runs on industry-standard PC server hardware. Otherwise, I suspect we would have seen Windows Server squash UNIX like a bug a long time ago.
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