From a summary of the latest IDC numbers on CRN:

"Server sales are down, but don't tell that to anyone selling Linux servers. Especially don't tell that to Dell Computer, which enjoyed by far the fastest growth of the top vendors."

Specifically in the first quarter of this year:
* Dell sold 38,000 servers pre-installed with Linux amounting to 124 million in revenue (following this trend, we'll hit a 1/2 billion by the end of the year)
* While these numbers put Dell second behind HP (50,500 servers), Dell's year over year volume growth was 58.7 percent and revenue growth was 77.6 percent

So, while total server revenue declined 3.6 percent, it looks like Dell/Linux is running away with market share. I think this might explain it.

By Gary at 01:07 PM in Linux | Comments (0)