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["Fred A. Miller" <fm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Report: Less Linux in servers...

"A major disagreement is brewing about exactly what share of the server 
market Linux actually holds, and Microsoft is again an active player in 
the debate. 

A recently released Gartner Dataquest report, sponsored by several 
companies including Microsoft, found that just 8.6 percent of server 
shipments in the U.S. during the third quarter of 2000 were 
Linux-based. 

The report, authored by Gartner Dataquest principle analyst Jeff 
Hewitt, also found that 93 percent of those server systems shipped were 
Red Hat Linux, with the remaining 7 percent consisting of "other Linux 
flavors." 

Another interesting finding was that when so-called "white box," or 
non-branded, server purchases were excluded and only branded server 
purchases considered, Linux's share of the market fell to just 6 
percent in the third quarter of 2000."

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2772060,00.html

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