Although recent mainframe revenue reports look poor in comparison to last year, IBM said it is having success on the Linux end. "More than 40% of new System z customers installed Linux last year, and Linux continued to grow over 15% during the first half of 2009," IBM said in a press release.
Over this entire decade, IBM says IDC numbers show that its revenue market share for servers costing $250,000 or more has moved from 17% to 32%.
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