Windows Predominates On Virtual Machines

By Charles Babcock
InformationWeek, January 2, 2008 05:20 PM

Sage Research said 96% of the respondents use Windows on their virtual servers and 52% are running Linux.

Virtual machines need an operating system with which to run, and the operating system most frequently being used in the current wave of virtualization is Windows, according to a survey sponsored by Sage Research and published in its recent Sage/CMB market Pulse newsletter.

Sage Research is the technology practice branch of custom market research firm Chadwick Martin Bailey. Sage surveyed Chadwick Martin Bailey's panel of technology service providers and panel of professional technology users and found 96% of the respondents use Windows on their virtual servers.

Read more this news quote