[antiRepublicrat]

Microsoft also rules in servers with the highest market share.

Qualify that. What kind of servers? Small business servers, maybe. Web? No:

High-end servers? MS rarely even plays in that field, with only a few examples that they no doubt gave great deals on in order to get those examples to promote.

[usgator]

nice graph ... but doesn't apache ALSO run from windows? I have a java site which runs on Apache from my windows server. Could this be part of why it ranks so high? I am not an expert in that area so forgive me if I'm wrong.

[KwasiOwusu]

That is so funny. Ummm..

# 1, my post asked for Gartner.
After all we have just Gartner and IDC for the most part that issue quarterly server and PC sales figures.
Netcraft doesn't count

And # 2, you know and I know that web servers is a very small slice of total servers sold.
Give me figures showing that Linux sold more servers than Microsoft Windows on either the desktop or servers in the latest quarter, or any other quarter you care to name, will you?

[Company Man]

Web? No

If you look at ecommerce sites employing SSL services, that graph looks a whole lot different, and guess who wins? That's right, ol' softee. Because the SECURITY is TIGHTER.

The web defacement numbers favor ms also.