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I don’t agree at all. Linux was fairly ubiquitous even in the late 90s. For example the entire line of Cobalt server appliances were Linux based, and they were

• Gordonjcp 4y ago
  I looked after dozens of those, both the Raqs and the Qubes, in the earlyish 2000s. I want to say, about 2003-2004ish? The Raqs got through fans like crazy, for some reason. I think I went through all of the servers twice in two years.
• Maursault 4y ago
  > Linux was fairly ubiquitous Linux was not omnipresent in the late 90's, regardless of a single server appliance. It was only in 2007 that any major hardware vendor (Dell, HP) even announced it would ship w/ Linux preinstalled. By 2008, NetBSD still had about 50% of webserver space with 30% run on Windows Server. In 2008, Linux ran maybe about 20% of Internet webservers, regardless of Steve Balmer's claim (remember how big the Internet is, i.e. it does not only consist of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft... that is only 4 sites... there were 31M websites in 2008, and most of them still ran NetBSD). A lot of file servers ran on Linux, there was big data being stored on Linux by 2007, there was massive interest in Linux, but Linux was not all there was, and Linux really did not take over the datacenter, where nearly all the hardware ran Linux, until late 2011.
  • Gordonjcp 4y ago
    > there were 31M websites in 2008, and most of them still ran NetBSD Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
    • CRConrad 4y ago
      But the status quo is, pretty much by definition, not extraordinary. I also remember "common knowledge" of the era as "BSD standard, Linux up-and-coming". So where's your evidence for your extraordinary claim that this wasn't how it was?