And you're basing a retreat on numbers of publicly accessed servers for online commerce?

A much more telling number would show that Microsoft once ruled that segment and has had significant decreases, especially over the last five years.

And would be good to source your numbers. Otherwise, their just statistics. And we know what that means.


>Using latest figures from Q4 2012:
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>Linux and Unix variants run almost 2/3 of publicly accessed servers for online commerce etc.
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>Private server rooms: how often do you come across zOS? It's on >12% of private servers and is used by 95% of Fortune 1000 Companies. Windows has about 45% and the rest is almost all Linux/Unix variants- at least the ones we know about. Windows always is counted, Linux isn't- without license figures you can be sure there are plenty of Linux servers that never can be counted.
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>The gist is that Linux dominates servers, with MS familiars predicting a turnaround with latest cloud server variants.
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>Supercomputers are a rout: 93.8% Linux, 0.6% Windows.
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>So if you're developing server apps, whatever that means, you'd be smart to consider LAMP.