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HP offers Solaris on ProLiant

IT Industry - Market

Earlier this month, IDC reported that Unix server revenue declined more slowly than either Windows or Linux server revenue during the fourth quarter of 2008.

Windows server revenue fell by 10.0 percent year-on year, Linux by 7.2 percent, and Unix by 6.2 percent.

Unix accounted for 36.2 percent of the server market by revenue, compared with Windows' 35.3 percent.

Sun claims that no other commercial Unix or Linux distribution has a larger installed base than Solaris.

According to IDC figures, HP's ProLiant range remains the leader of the x86 server market with a 38.2 percent revenue share.

The arrangement does not mean HP is downplaying HP-UX, the company's own version of Unix.

HP-UX "remains the preferred UNIX operating environment to address customers' mission-critical computing requirements," according to HP officials.