Server market share by OS
According to IDC , sales of Windows systems accounted for 36.9% of all server revenue in the quarter, versus 31.7% for Unix and 11.5% for Linux.
However, Linux is growing faster than windows (34.3% vs 17.7% revenue growth) and (20.5 % vs 15.3% unit shipment growth).
More information inferred from the IDC press release:
x86 revenue = 6.3 billion (50.4%)
From Q205 numbers:
x86 revenue = 5.7 billion
x86 volume = 1.5 million servers
average price = $3800 (too high for dual cpu boxen?)
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After analyzing more data from CRN, the Q305 server unit volume is 1.75 million servers (HP’s 28.8% unit share = 504k servers).
Also, average selling price of a Linux server is increasing faster than that of a windows server (ratio of revenue growth to unit growth).