It has 95% market share in the productivity software market, 75% share in the operatingsystem market and approximately 75% share in the serversoftware market.
Open source software such as Apache Web server and the Linux serveroperatingsystem have become popular systems to run not only on network servers, but also on server appliances (servers dedicated to single tasks such as e-mail and Web site hosting).
Lesswatts.org will host a group of software developers working to build Linux operatingsystem upgrades that use server hardware more efficiently and save energy.
In his previous company, Valence Research, Bain developed a distributed Web load-balancing software solution that was acquired by Microsoft and is now called Network Load Balancing within the Windows Serveroperatingsystem.