Office Professional IDC Dollarwise, Windows still

The researchers at International Information Corp. (IDC) launched their most recent worldwide server marketplace share information this week. As was true in the last quarter of 2009,Office 2007 Ultimate,  Windows servers are much and away the leader in share as measured by of proportion of income, the firm found.
While Windows’ reveal was up slightly, to 42.1 percent of server OS reveal by revenue, Linux was also up, reaching 17 percent in Q4 2010, according to IDC. Unix’s reveal was down,Windows 7 Activation, hitting 25.6 percent share, IDC said.
The fast-rising star inside the server OS space was IBM’s z/OS mainframe operating system, IDC reported. A year ago, IDC didn’t break out z/OS’s reveal by income, but in the final quarter of 2010, that number was 11.3 percent.
Here are the IDC breakouts:
Server OS reveal (by proportion of revenue) for Q4 2010
z/OS 11.3
Linux 17.0
Windows 42.1
Unix 25.6
Server OS reveal (by percentage of income)for Q4 2009
z/OS (not available)
Linux 14.7
Windows 41.6
Unix 29.9
IDC noted that factory revenues for the fourth quarter of 2010 were up 15.3 percent year over year,Office Professional, to $15.0 billion. Shipments for Q4 2010 hit 2.1 million units. IDC said Q4 2010 marked the highest quarterly revenue in the server marketplace in three years.