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Amazon: Linux Saved Us Millions

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

Ian_Bailey writes: "ZDNet news presents another chapter in the Windows vs. Linux debate. Amazon.com claims that by switching to Linux, they were able to "cut technology expenses by about 25 percent, from $71 million to $54 million."" Lots of little bits in there. Nothing really new, but it's still nice.

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  1. Linux winning over Win2k on the money angle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    Microsoft must position the MSFT stock as a growth stock. This means revenue growth of 10% per year. As revenues grow and the market beomces saturated, this beomces increasingly difficult to do and requires more draconian licensing and steeper fees.

    It was predicatable that sooner or later, without opening new and potentially large markets, Microsoft would have to gouge existing customers.

    The only thing that can bring Win2k and other enterprise software costs back in check would be a huge influx of revenues from XBox, MSN, and .Net services, three of the key new revenue initiatives at Microsoft.

  2. Re:A classic example of speaking out of one's arse by Carnage4Life · · Score: 4, Informative
    http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/

    It knows what I have installed, what is *needed*, and other things I may *want*.

    1. WindowsUpdate is a GUI tool that needs MSIE. Tell me how I upgrade a whole network of machines without doing it by hand on each one if I use Windows Update? Answer: I can't.

    2. WindowsUpdate doesn't carry IIS patches which makes it practically useless for the major security issue surrounding Windows. which is IIS.
      To successfully keep on top of IIS patches you have to use hfNetChk which is,

      WAIT FOR IT,

      a command line tool.
  3. Re:quote of the day. by mjh · · Score: 3, Informative
    With Linux, customers "end up being in the operating systems business," managing software updates and security patches while making sure the multitude of software packages don't conflict with each other," Miller said. "That's the job of a software vendor like Microsoft."

    Yeah, and it works great in debian:
    echo deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib non-free >> /etc/apt/sources.list
    apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

    Let's see: dependancy management, security updates. What exactly was it that Linux doesn't do?

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