I guess this would further justify why Microsoft wants embrace and support Linux. It is now becoming obvious that there is a grass roots support growing for Linux that cannot be extinguished by FUD campaigns. This was reported by the www.theinquirer.net
“According to PCPro, HP’s sales tracking is apparently quite accurate and the outfit can confidently tell us that number 100,000 is a DL145G2 ProLiant featuring two 2.6Ghz AMD Opteron CPUs, 16Gb memory and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. “
I am not sure whether these sales are coming at the expense of Unix replacement (ie.. Solaris) or Microsoft server replacements. I’ll take a conservative guess and say that around 40% to 60% of these sales should have been a Microsoft Server License. Given that a 20 CAL Windows Server License goes for $629 at NewEgg. We can give an estimate that Microsoft lost between 24 million and 36 million dollars to Linux servers in the UK alone. These are just guesses and assumptions based from the sales figures, so take them with a grain of salt. Maybe its not so strange the Microsoft is now an advocate of Linux rather than an opponent, given than hundreds of millions of dollar across the globe are NOT making their way into the Microsoft coffers.
