Sun is winning in the server market

In some ways, it’s not all that shocking to see Sun setting them up and taking them down in the server market. The article below tells the tale…

Inexplicably, we’ve gotten through much of 2006 without Linux completely kicking Unix out of the market. Analysts and Linux faithful are at a loss to explain how Sun Microsystems’ server revenue climbed almost 14 percent since the second quarter last year, pushing Sun ahead of Dell in the rankings. Gartner pegs Sun’s Unix server market share at 56.9 percent.

Playing analyst for a moment, I’ll send myself an e-mail explaining that having majority share of a dwindling market is nothing to crow about, and that a 10-foot rise from a mile-deep hole is hardly a rocket-like ascent. (I can be such a killjoy.)
The truth is, considerations of my alter ego and his brethren notwithstanding, Sun’s growth is a victory, and I will shelve my humility yet again to point out that I’ve been certain of Sun’s renewal since I started writing this column. It is a matter of patience, vision, and the nerve to stick with that vision even when nobody else seems to see it Sun’s way…. Source: InfoWorld