I see this stat a lot and it has to be a majority of web servers. I just don’t believe that most servers aren’t running windows. I’ve worked with so many companies large and small as a consultant and the amount of Linux servers in production that aren’t just web servers or load balancers is just miniscule. If you were to search on a job board for a sysadmin job managing Linux servers you have to look for a completely different job title “Linux sysadmin” because nine times out of ten “Sysadmin” means your environment is at least 80% Windows Server.
My experience in the industry is very tangential, but your argument seems sound. Tons of intranet stuff is based on Exchange, and while IIS market share is minuscule, web servers are a pretty small part of “servers” as a whole.
I’d be shocked if windows server + every other version of Unix (HP/UX, AIX, Solaris, etc) isn’t at least 6+% of servers.
I see this stat a lot and it has to be a majority of web servers. I just don’t believe that most servers aren’t running windows. I’ve worked with so many companies large and small as a consultant and the amount of Linux servers in production that aren’t just web servers or load balancers is just miniscule. If you were to search on a job board for a sysadmin job managing Linux servers you have to look for a completely different job title “Linux sysadmin” because nine times out of ten “Sysadmin” means your environment is at least 80% Windows Server.
My experience in the industry is very tangential, but your argument seems sound. Tons of intranet stuff is based on Exchange, and while IIS market share is minuscule, web servers are a pretty small part of “servers” as a whole.