"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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I believe Microsoft is quite nonplussed that their penetration
into server markets has been blunted by free OS alternatives.
That seems to be a frail reed indeed. Microsoft has gone from zero
server market share (at the advent of NT) to about 40% in terms of the
dollar value of new servers sold annually using Windows server OS and
about 50% in numerical units shipped. That is a pretty impressive
capture rate and it all occurred in the same timeframe that Linux was
evolving. Linux has made gains, to be sure, but almost all at the
expense of traditional Unix system sales.