http://news.com.com/2100-1001-236732.html?legacy=<nobr>c<wbr></nobr> net
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About 1.35 million copies of Linux were sold in 1999, which is 25 percent of the 5.4 million total copies of operating system software, according to preliminary data from market research firm International Data Corp. Linux shipments surpassed that of tried-and-true operating systems Novell Netware and all types of Unix in 1999. Nearly twice as many copies of Linux shipped last year than in 1998, and it grew at roughly four times the rate of the server OS market as a whole.
That is the way IDC used to track server software sales: by the unit, not by dollar. Nowadays it is based purely on revenue.
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IDC metric was units shipped, now it is revenue
Posted by: Joe Barr on August 19, 2003 07:36 PMhttp://news.com.com/2100-1001-236732.html?legacy=<nobr>c<wbr></nobr> net
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That is the way IDC used to track server software sales: by the unit, not by dollar. Nowadays it is based purely on revenue.
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Joe Barr
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