For the past 7 years, I've been having a love/hate relationship with Linux and Windows servers. Windows is easy to use but it is buggy and I hate it when eveything slows down when I open too many Internet Explorer windows. I love Linux as it is stabil and fast but it gets a bit tough to configure unknown / cheap graphic cards on my PC. Guess which OS is gaining ground in Data Centres around the world ?
A straw poll of attendees at Gartner's Data Centre Conference in January revealed that 40 percent of them were running a combination of Linux or Unix and Windows. This shows that there is little sign that "Linux will 'hit a wall', the analysts suggested in a research note published this week.
Gartner asked attendees of its Data Centre Conference to say what the makeup of their major enterprise data centre was. The largest section, 40 percent, said it comprised mainframes running Unix, Linux and Windows. Fourteen percent said they had a mainframe with just Unix and Windows, 4 percent were running Windows on a mainframe, and just 1 percent had a mainframe running Unix only.
Linux continues drive into datacentres source
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