Fred - High End CPUs for Windows NT Server - Up 80% in 1997!
I wonder how many Pentium Pro/II machines vs. K6 machines made up these Windows NT servers?
Any guesses?
Paul
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news.com
Windows NT server market
grows
By Paul Festa
January 27, 1998, 6:15 p.m. PT
Microsoft NT server broke away from the rest
of the server operating environment pack in
1997 with an 80 percent growth in unit sales
over the previous year.
Unix-based environments saw a modest 15
percent growth, according to preliminary
results of a report from IDC, about the same
rate of growth it had between 1995 and
1996.
NT experienced most of its growth in the so
called departmental servers serving 20 to 50
people, according to IDC research manager
Jean Bozman.
"Unix will continue to grow," said Bozman.
"Where Unix really shines is in the areas of
running large corporate databases" and
other high-end corporate computing
technologies such as multiprocessor servers,
she said, noting that NT 5.0 Enterprise
edition is expected to better address this
market than NT 4.0.
IBM OS/2 and Novel NetWare shipments
declined in 1997, by 34.5 percent and 9.4
percent, respectively.
The overall market grew 10.8 percent from
1996 to 1997, according to the results, which
is less than half the rate of growth from 1995
to 1996. 1996 saw an unusually high demand
because of the rapid growth in sale for
Internet servers.
Microsoft shipped 1.3 million units in 1997,
up from 732,000 in 1996 and 393,000 in
1995. Unix shipments totaled 717,000,
NetWare shipments totaled 900,000, and
IBM shipped OS/2 226,000 units.
IDC's full report for 1997 will be ready in the
spring. |
