[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“Customers gravitated toward more-expensive and powerful Linux
servers in the fourth quarter of 2003, new sales statistics
show.“With the server market’s heavy pricing pressure, revenue growth
has typically been far less than unit shipment growth–when any
revenue growth could be found in the last three difficult years.
But in Linux servers, revenue growth outpaced unit shipments,
according to fourth-quarter figures from market research firm
IDC.“Linux server shipments grew 63 percent to $950 million from the
fourth quarter of 2002 to the fourth quarter of 2003, IDC said. At
the same time, unit shipments grew 53 percent to about
250,000…”