End-user adoption of Linux servers for enterprise workloads hosting ISV applications and databases is ramping up rapidly, with newly published data indicating that uptake of the operating system has doubled over the past year.
According to the latest research from IDC, the annual growth rate of Linux server unit shipments has been rocketing over the past three years, from 15 per cent in the second quarter of 2001 to 40 per cent in the same period in 2004.
The analyst firm noted that the mix of form factors for these Linux servers has also been changing over time, with the result that dual-processor systems predominate, followed by one-processor and four-processor systems.
Between 1998 and 2003, the one-processor segment of the Linux server market grew at a healthy compound annual growth rate of 37.5 per cent.
However, this sector was eclipsed by the growth of dual-processor systems which clocked up a rate of 89.8 per cent from 1998 to 2003. This format currently accounts for three quarters of total Linux server shipment volume in the market today.
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