Servers in the enterprise: Windows beating Linux 2 to 1
Posted in Main on January 13th, 2010 by Pingdom
According to a new data center survey, Windows-based servers are more than twice as common in the enterprise as Linux servers.
The Symantec-sponsored survey included answers from the IT departments of 1,780 enterprises in 26 countries. It included small, medium-sized and large enterprises from a wide variety of industries, with the lower limit being companies with at least 1,000 employees.
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