SERVER OS MARKET SHARE WINDOWS

Of all the locations interviewed, barely 12 percent of them indicate that they useLinux.

These are mostly government locations and locations in the вЂњICT & UtilitiesвЂќ segment. Businesses with UNIX are most to be found in the segment with 500 to 1000 employees, with 6%. The intermediate categories bridge the gap in stages. Thus the proportion of Linux used by locations with 50 to 100 employees is seven percent, and among locations with more than 1,000 employees about 26 percent. Looking at the use of the various server Operating Systems according to category of size (of the location) shows that the use of both Linux and UNIX systems centres more on the upper side of the market than the somewhat smaller locations. In the public domain this percentage is highest among government bodies, where one in five locations uses Linux servers. The exception to this is the public segment, where find one or more Linux servers in use among 15% of the locations. The use of Linux in the various segments is largely at a comparable level. вЂњWindows Server 2008вЂќ still has a clearly greater rate of spread in this segment that the newer versions. The same goes for businesses in the Medium Sized Businesses segment, which covers companies with 50 to 250 employees in The Netherlands. In the public domain, which therefore covers the government, educational and healthcare institutions, вЂњWindows Server 2012вЂќ already occupies a greater position now than вЂњWindows Server 2008. Server operating system per market segment Here too, little has changed over the last three years. The same goes for OS/400 systems, which we still find in approximately 3 percent of the locations. These will be proprietary systems that simply cannot be converted into a newer platform. This rate has gone virtually unchanged over the past 3 years. We still find UNIX systems in about 1.5% of the locations. Sometimes a bit below that figure, and a bit above over the last few years. The peculiar thing about the use of LInux is that the percentage of businesses using Linux servers continues to hover around 10%. Approximately 12 percent of businesses in the target group use a Linux server. Linux is the most common platform after MicrosoftвЂ™s server operating systems. Just as вЂњWindows XPвЂќ on the desktop far exceeded its expected/planned life expectancy, вЂњWindows Server 2003вЂќ too has been able to stick around in a large section the business world for an amazingly long period of time. However, both вЂњWindows Server 2008вЂќ and вЂњWindows Server 2012вЂќ are nowhere near as popular as вЂњWindows Server 2003вЂќ. This has emerged from an analysis by Smart Profile of about 2,000 interviews on the use of server Operating Systems. This percentage is likely to continue rising over the next year or two. For вЂњWindows Server 2012вЂќ too, we are still seeing a rising line in the percentage of businesses that indicate they use this version to the current 34 percent, four and a half years after its introduction. In 2013 вЂњWindows Server 2008вЂќ was in use by approximately 55 percent of the aforementioned businesses with 50 or more employees. Thus.вЂњWindows Server 2008вЂќ only reached its peak penetration five years after it was introduced. The trend line of the Server OS-penetration of the other Microsoft releases shows that the business market is often slow to adopt a new operating system. We expect that it will certainly be another five years or so before this new OS will be the most used Server OS. Since then, we can see that this OS has fallen by a couple of percentage points (about 2.5%) on the Dutch business market among businesses with 50 or more employees. вЂњWindows Server 2016вЂќ appeared on the market at the end of last year, in October 2016 to be precise.

Windows Server 2012 approximately equal to Windows Server 2008

SERVER OS MARKET SHARE WINDOWS

Server os market share