A Case for Linux in the Corporation

_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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Re:This reads like a linux fairy tale

[tmark]

This isn't a tale of Linux winning over Microsoft. This is a tale of Linux helping an organization make choices.

Actually, I would say it is more a case of Microsoft losing then Linux winning or doing much of anything. It seems clear the real deal breaker was the fact that Linux is free. There was nothing about special about Linux here that would have prevented someone from replacing 'Linux' with 'OS/2', except that Linux is free. It was Microsoft who kept screwing them over on outrageously escalating licensing fees. It was Microsoft that penalizes their customers for not having the faith to jump whenever Microsoft yelled. If MS had more generous/less expensive licensing fees then this (supposed) company likely would still have stayed with MS.

And I would like to add my voice to the chorus that is somewhat suspicious of the article. Companies often are NOT shy about announcing changes they make to their infrastructure, especially as they relate to the bottom line.

Re:This reads like a linux fairy tale

[irix]

When I used to write some web apps that ran on IIS (about 1 year ago - thank god those days are over) we worked with a fairly big NT shop.

Their policy was to reboot the NT web servers one per month on schedule, becuase if you went any longer IIS would go into a death spiral and take NT down with it.

This place was staffed with lots of MCSEs, etc. and this was their answer to problems with NT/IIS. No joke.