IDC Dollarwise, Windows still leads the server m

The scientists at Worldwide Information Corp. (IDC) introduced their most recent globally server market reveal information this week. As was true in the final quarter of 2009,  Windows servers are much and absent the leader in reveal as measured by of proportion of income, the firm discovered.
While Windows’ reveal was up slightly, to 42.1 percent of server OS share by income, Linux was also up, reaching 17 percent in Q4 2010, according to IDC. Unix’s reveal was down, hitting 25.6 percent share, IDC said.
The fast-rising star inside the server OS space was IBM’s z/OS mainframe operating system, IDC reported. A year ago, IDC didn’t break out z/OS’s reveal by revenue, but in the final quarter of 2010, that number was 11.3 percent.
Here are the IDC breakouts:
Server OS reveal (by proportion of revenue) for Q4 2010
z/OS 11.3
Linux 17.0
Windows 42.1
Unix 25.6
Server OS reveal (by percentage of revenue)for Q4 2009
z/OS (not available)
Linux 14.7
Windows 41.6
Unix 29.9
IDC noted that factory revenues for the fourth quarter of 2010 were up 15.3 percent year over year, to $15.0 billion. Shipments for Q4 2010 hit 2.1 million units. IDC said Q4 2010 marked the highest quarterly income inside the server market in three years.