Microsoft plans Web server for appliances
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Responding to the growing popularity of server appliances, Microsoft plans to roll out a dedicated Web server in next year's first quarter as part of its upcoming Windows .NET Server Family, according to a source close to Microsoft.
"The way to look at it, this is an arrow aimed at the heart of Linux," said Chris LeTocq, a research analyst and co-founder of Guernsey Research in Los Gatos, Calif. The idea of server appliances is catching on. Market research firm IDC, in Framingham, Mass., issued a report in May estimating that worldwide revenues will experience a compound annual growth rate of 56 percent and leap from $3.8 billion last year to $31.4 billion in 2005.