Access These Reports & More Server OS - Server Operating System Market Share, 2018 The market for Server OS is expected to reach 12 billion shipments in 2020. The market for Server Operating System shipments grew by 10% in 2019 with nearly 11 million unit shipments worldwide. Server Operating System Market, million unit shipments, 2016 - 2020 Major shifts in the industry take years or decades. The Server Operating System Market is relatively consolidated as seen with the major vendors having significant Server Operating System Market Share. Red Hat is the leading provider of open source Linux Server Operating System software. The major types of Server Operating Systems are open source, dominated by Linux, and closed source, dominated by Microsoft and its Windows Server Operating System software.
Any computing device, including laptops, desktops, iOS and Android smartphones, and smartwatches can be turned into web servers. The Server Operating System helps enable and facilitate typical server roles such as Web server, mail server, file server, database server, application server and print server. This is similar to how a desktop OS, mobile device OS, or embedded device OS enables software programs and applications to run on those respective devices. The Server OS, is a software layer on top of which other software programs, or applications, can run on the server hardware. Last Updated: JanuAbout the Server Operating System MarketĪ server operating system, also called a Server OS, is an operating system specifically designed to run on servers.