I regularly point out that Windows Server is still about half of the general server market and shouldn’t be simply disregarded as if it didn’t exist. Invariably, there is some SV ex-FAANG employee here who is simply incredulous at this fact. Just can’t believe it, because in his corner of the world only Linux is used.
Similarly Azure is just a myth and does not exist.
> I regularly point out that Windows Server is still about half of the general server market and shouldn’t be simply disregarded as if it didn’t exist. Invariably, there i
It's hard to get reliable numbers, but there are few third-party stats that say between 40-50% globally, but in some countries likely over 70%.
In Australia, I work as a consultant across many orgs, both large and small, and the percentage of Windows Servers is definitely over 75% here, but apparently we're an outlier. For example, Australia East is a top-tier Azure region because there are so many Microsoft-centric large enterprise orgs around here.
It also matters what you consider a "server" and whether you count "unique configs" or raw numbers. For example, a University might have 2K-3K distinct Windows Server VMs and a 5K node Linux HPC environment running an identical build as a single cluster. So do they have more Windows or Linux servers? Technically, more Linux, by the numbers. But their admins will spend 99% of their time dealing with the large number of distinct Windows VMs, and treat the Linux cluster as just 1% of their fleet.
In this manner, the FAANGs definitely skew numbers. They may have hundreds of millions of largely identical Linux servers, but they're treated as a few huge clusters.
And of course, startups created by ex-FAANG employees will generally be Linux-centric and all hires will be similar Silicon Valley types, reinforcing the notion that "only Linux is used for servers". Yes... in one tiny part of the world. I bet BSD is also more common... near Berkley.
Ha, I've found this attitude from a bunch of people in other parts of our extended company.
Cloud means 'AWS', apparently.
Servers only run Linux, supposedly.
btw, Windows Clusters can do a good job, albeit an expensive way to resilience, but not something understood from many of the Linux-only crowd.
We need more openness and less closed views, for sure.
Similarly Azure is just a myth and does not exist.