Choosing a Server Platform
UNIX is perhaps the most common platform in use nowadays for servers.
From a source: Gartner Dataquest, March 2003 (sale in billions of dollars)
OS 2001 2002
Linux $1.3 $2.1 (double the sale)
UNIX $19.4 $17.2
Windows $13.1 $12.4
From http://usatoday.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&expire=&urlID=6897157&fb=Y&partnerID=1661.
Table 8.1, pg 271 shows a comparison among the three architectural options, namely:
Own server and own network,
Own server but lease network, and
Lease server space.