windows vs linux

[james34]

windows vs linux


Does anyone know the market share of these two operating systems in regard to servers online.
Im thinking linux is bigger but I maybe wrong.

[senshi]

Its more of a software support issue.

[Zardokk]

Linux is more widely used on servers (I don't know the percentage).

[senshi]

TBH all the places I have worked at except one place used Windows machines and the other place was a Mac setup.

[Linuxhippy]

Linux is the most used OS for webservers.

see http://news.netcraft.com/

They do not mention Linux directly all the time, but about 80% of the apache servers are Linux boxes.


Apache 41819229 69.19 43174442 69.32 0.13
Microsoft 12420068 20.55 12735588 20.45 -0.10
Sun 1836275 3.04 1880921 3.02 -0.02
Zeus 610819 1.01 576582 0.93 -0.08

[Linuxhippy]

sorry - formatting was lost:

Apache - 69% market share - +0.13%
IIS - 20.5% - -0.1%