Recently, the internationally renowned market research company IDC released the "China Linux Market 2005-2009 Forecast and Analysis" report. The report predicts that China Linux market 2005 to 2009 annual average growth rate is 23.9%.
According to the report, Turbolinux's sales revenue in 2004 further expanded in 2003, ranking first in the Linux market in China. This is also the first time since Idc in 2001, Turbolinux has won the first prostitute in the fourth consecutive year.
In 2004, Turbolinux has increased by 24.6% in the server-side Linux sales revenue. The market share of China Linux server has increased from 61.1% in 2003 to 62.0% in 2004; at the desktop, Turbolinux sales revenue increased by 22.9%, Market share increased from 22.1% in 2003 to 24.9% in 2004.
According to IDC report, in 2004 China's Linux market income, the proportion of server-side and desktop ends were 73.7% and 26.3%, respectively.