A little over a week ago, IDC published some numbers on marketshare that I disagreed with a little. The whole thing actually got covered in the NY Times. I disagreed because the numbers I had seen from Gartner and my own experiences dealing with customers every day and talking with a lot of other people in the industry just said the numbers didn’t make sense. I actually reached out to the people at IDC to have a phone call and dig into the numbers a little more. I’ll make sure to post a follow-up on that when that call happens (hopefully this week).
In the mean time there was an article published about Virtual Iron where the graph below from Gartner appeared.
It turns out that the graph is pretty old. I first saw the graph in December 2007. An anonymous poster on Virtualization.info (most likely from Gartner) actually stated it was from November 2007. Whatever the original date it was old. Gartner reached out to the original author and got them to post the updated chart below. For those with a Gartner subscription (or a checkbook) you can get the report this came from here.
As you can see, the numbers match much better with what the last several reports have said from Gartner – VMware at 89% and Microsoft at 7%. Now you can see why I’m questioning the IDC numbers and why hopefully we’ll get visibility into their methodology very soon. In the mean time I’m glad we get a view of the Gartner side of the story.
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Craig
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