14 DAY TRIAL // HP is a well known printer maker and incidentally (or not) that is also where most of their money come from. But it seems that lately not all goodies come from there after all. HP also produces rack mountable servers. And it seems that the server line is also going well since they have announced that they've just shipped the 100,000th Linux based server in Great Britain. Moreover, the total number of servers shipped worldwide comes close to 1,500,000.
Whether that is an achievement or UK really loves HP servers no one can actually say. But 100,000 servers shipped just in one country is something to be taken into account. According to PCPro, HP's sales tracking is quite accurate and the number 100,000 is in fact real. DL145G2 ProLiant servers feature two 2.6Ghz AMD Opteron CPUs, a maximum amount of 16GBs of Ram and come with Red Hat Enterprise Linux preinstalled.
It seems that not only does HP sell a lot but it is also the preferred server supplier for many design and science related companies. And as a result, the ProLiant servers will be used by engineering firm Arup as part of a cluster that will execute computational fluid dynamics software. HP says that according to numbers taken from IDC there had been a 32.7% per year growth in Linux server shipments. Impressive numbers but what's actually more interesting is the fact that HP along with other server manufacturers (such as Dell and Gateway) has jumped into the Linux wagon and they sell more because of that. I know Microsoft doesn't like that but things seem to work better this way both for server manufacturers and for Linux developers.