April 29 morning news, market research firm Gartner’s latest research report released on Wednesday showed that in 2010 the global operating system market, revenue grew 7.8%, reaching 30.4 billion U.S. dollars, while Microsoft’s Windows operating system to continue to occupy 78.6% share the market leading position, but Linux and Apple laptop battery Mac OS but the biggest increase in revenue in 2010 operating system.
Particular interest is, Linux and Mac operating systems on the client and server operating system market have shown strong growth momentum. 2010, the client operating system market grew 9.3%, of which, Mac OS is the fastest growing operating system, but Windows still dominated the market.
According to Gartner report, benefit from the Mac desktop and notebook computer sales strong growth in revenue Apple platform in 2010 was 5.2 billion U.S. dollars, up 15.8%. In contrast, Microsoft’s client business grew only 9.2%.
Gartner explained that: “Apple laptop battery is committed to a Mac OS to create a” cool “processing of client operating system, Mac equipment and platforms, attracting a large number of loyal users. Meanwhile, Apple is still as smart phones and platforms computers and other mobile devices continue to innovate, to promote sales of Apple laptop battery‘s other devices, will continue to drive Mac sales growth. “
Gartner report shows that in the server operating system market, as end-users with greater use of open standards, Linux, which in 2010 became the fastest-growing market, the operating system. Global server operating systems market revenue in 2010 grew 5.7%.
Open source software provider Red Hat Linux server market in the business occupies a dominant position. According to Gartner’s statistics, Red Hat Enterprise Linux revenue in 2010 rose sharply to 592 million, compared with 2009 increased 18.6%, accounting for 58.2% of the Linux server market share. In contrast, Microsoft’s server business grew revenue by 2010 only 7.5%.
IBM laptop battery and Apple laptop battery were 7.5% and 3.7% market share in the operating system market occupies a certain advantage. Gartner wrote in the report, Linux’s strong growth in 2010 that the “server operating system market has started to accept Linux systems, as proprietary Unix operating systems and other viable alternatives.”
When asked about Dell’s cloud computing into the problem and how Dell and Amazon and Rackspace’s products such as the issue of competition, Michael Dell said the company’s cloud products for large commercial organizations.
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