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A Case for Linux in the Corporation

Posted by michael on from the save-a-buck-or-two dept.

_UnderTow_ writes: "Saw this over at Anandtech. It's a pretty descriptive account of a reasonably large corporation (7000+ employees) transitioning their network infrastructure over to Red Hat Linux. Has details of the company's initial move to NT, and their eventual move to Linux as the cost of licensing gets out of control."

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  1. Re:This reads like a linux fairy tale by ahodgson · · Score: 2, Funny

    The few NT shops I've been in usually rebooted their NT 4.0 servers on Fridays just so they'd be likely to stay up over the weekend ...

  2. We must have different support needs. by Futurepower(tm) · · Score: 5, Funny


    dlb, we must have very different support needs. Microsoft has never been able to help my company with Windows operating system problems. They never know the answers, and can't find them. True, we only call with difficult problems.

    My experience has been identical to that discussed in the article published by the Boston Mac User's Group (BMUG) about who is better at answering Microsoft product technical support calls: Microsoft Technical Support, or The Psychic Friends Network? You can read it at http://www.bmug.org/news/articles/MSvsPF.html

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