Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Gartner: Linux overtaking Unix in DBMS Workloads
Gartner recently published a study of 1,800 companies on database management system workloads that has some interesting findings. One is the tremendous popularity for Linux as the OS of choice for databases. This complements the Oracle User Group report from around the same time frame that said Linux will soon be the top platform for Oracle deployments. I can’t do this Gartner report justice here - best to read the whole thing. The z/OS comeback was an interesting twist as well.
“With 39 percent today and 20 percent in the next 12 months, Linux is gaining rapidly, and with 59 percent (compared with 65 percent in Unix), this demonstrates that Linux will overtake Unix in the next few years.”
Source: Gartner (March 2006)
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