"The Unix market, though, is still huge, and the three major players are fighting for every scrap. In another first, IBM secured the top spot in 2005, with 31.8 percent of the market to Hewlett-Packard's 29.8 percent and Sun's 26.2 percent."
I will assume that OSX is in that >10% Unix portion. But that 10% UNIX also includes Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX, very popular servers in the UNIX community.
This means that there are about 76300 UNIX servers sold/quarter, or 762000 total servers sold/quarter, giving OSX a 1.14% total market share, and Windows a total of 533400 sold/quarter. 533400>>8700.
The final results are not exact (SUN sells more than just x86 servers), but it would actually bring down the percentages for Apple, not make it better.
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From http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15057/1023 Windows server has a 70% market share, 20% Linux, Unix > 10%, and Netware making up the rest.
According to http://news.cnet.com/Windows-bumps-Unix-as-top-server-OS/2100-1016_3-6041804.html (a 2006 study, but even if you say that Apple grew 73%, you can still make some assumptions):
"The Unix market, though, is still huge, and the three major players are fighting for every scrap. In another first, IBM secured the top spot in 2005, with 31.8 percent of the market to Hewlett-Packard's 29.8 percent and Sun's 26.2 percent."
I will assume that OSX is in that >10% Unix portion. But that 10% UNIX also includes Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX, very popular servers in the UNIX community.
Sun shipped 20000 x86 servers in one quarter of FY2006 (yes, a few years back, but market share does not change dramatically year over year, and is included in the percentages from above for UNIX) according to http://news.cnet.com/Sun-shipped-about-8%2C000-Galaxy-servers/2110-1010_3-6031248.html?tag=nw.2
This means that there are about 76300 UNIX servers sold/quarter, or 762000 total servers sold/quarter, giving OSX a 1.14% total market share, and Windows a total of 533400 sold/quarter. 533400>>8700.
The final results are not exact (SUN sells more than just x86 servers), but it would actually bring down the percentages for Apple, not make it better.
Excellent post which goes to highlight Microsoft's absolute dominance and Apple's inadequacies.