Quote "the facts tell a different story. The Unix business is strong and growing, and Unix servers remain the computers of choice for businesses that need high-powered computing." Yet....(Your second link)
- Unix servers experienced 2.5% revenue growth year over year; however, unit shipments declined 8.7% when compared with 1Q04. Worldwide Unix revenues of $4.3 billion for the quarter reflect continued IT investment in this server market segment with particular strength in the high-end of the market.
Quote "Microsoft Windows servers showed strong growth, as revenues grew 14.3% and unit shipments grew 10.9% year over year."
This bears out...(Same Link)
- Microsoft Windows servers showed strong growth, as revenues grew 14.3% and unit shipments grew 10.9% year over year. Significantly, quarterly revenue of $4.1 billion for Windows servers represented 33.5% of overall quarterly factory revenue, as customers deploy more fully configured Windows servers for server virtualization initiatives.
However...(Same Link)
- Linux servers posted their 12th consecutive quarter of double-digit growth, with year-over-year revenue growth of 45.1% and unit shipments up 32.1%. Customers continue to expand the role of Linux servers into an ever increasing array of workloads in both the commercial and technical segments of the market.
We can play the link game all night long. What remains is that Linux is making very strong headway (45% revenue growth -vs- Microsoft's 14%. VERY impressive when you consider that no-one really took it seriously until just recently), Windows is forced to be competitive and Unix is slowing.
We can play the link game all night long. You can do whatever you want. I already proved the claim in the article was an outright lie, beyond that, I could care less how you want to spin it now.