Amazon: Linux Saved Us Millions

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.

Comments

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[Anonymous Coward]

damn i'm good at this. metro to win tonight, mark my works.

All of this.......

[Nick's Name]

"We've recently...found that Linux--if you look at the overall cost of ownership including the hardware, software, staffing, and purchasing and retirement costs--ends up being significantly less expensive than Unix over a three-year period for things like Web serving," said IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky.

And it's made me more attractive to the ladies!

This just in!

[Anonymous Coward]

Breaking news! I just found that if I squeeze my anus hard enuff it extrudes something akin to pudding!

And the nookie. They did it all for the nookie....

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, they can take that cookie, and stick it in their, yeah, stick it in their, yeah, yeah yeah.

And I'd just as soon kiss a wookie than have nookie for a cookie from a rookie like Jeff Bezos.

linux saves you money, too bad it sucks.

[Anonymous Coward]

yeah, too bad amazon are still a bunch of intellectual-property bluenosing pieces of shit.

using linux does not make you into a good guy (tm). it just means you use linux. using microsoft does not make you evil (c). it just means you use microsoft.

btw, i got the new mandrake distro and it refused to install on two brand-new boxes. locked up during setup, hard. munged a third one completely. xp installed on all three flawlessly and i was able to get all the updates i needed for it in five minutes.

personally, i don't see what all the screaming is about.

Re:Linux Costs $54 Million?

[mikeporter]

Duh, I just couldnt resist!

Great, now if only HomePNA would work

[Uttles]

OK guys, sorry to be a little off topic, but I'm a little annoyed at the moment with the lack of support from HomePNA for Linux. At my apartment my roomate and I share an ADSL connection using HomePNA 2.0 and computers with Windows installed. I'm trying to move over to Linux but now I can't get to the internet unless I boot up under Windoze because Linux won't support my USB 2Wire HomePNA 2.0 card.

Anyway, in order for Linux to compete in the broad PC market they have to support little conveniences like running a home network over your phone lines (not everyone has the time, money, or ability to run cat 5 all over the place.) It's great that Amazon is supporting Linux and singing it's praises, but there's still a long way to go before every day people switch over to Linux.

So, anybody know anything about HomePNA 2.0 on Linux?

Linus PR Machine

[Anonymous Coward]

Glad to see the old Linus PR machine is out to say how Linus is doubleplusgood.

Just wait until about a year when the real cost is in. Everyone will see that the Total Cost of Ownership of Linus far exceeds the TCO of Windows.

This is obviously just a ploy by Amazon to try and generate more site hits and sales. In a slumping economy, most real Americans forego retail purchases and frivilous things like internet surfing. The Amazon braintrust just wants to attract the few anti-socials that maintain their only contact with the world through the internet. They think by plugging Linus they can get mindshare in this community.

If the economy improves, you can bet they will go back to the dominant and cheaper OS - Microsoft Windows.

Re:does this meen

[Anonymous Coward]

Man! Hope she was at least a good Queen, because she is ASS UGLY!!!

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It was rejected within just a couple of minutes of submission, yet a nearly identical submission makes it to the front page today. This is why I don't bother to post stories to /. -- the maintainers are troglodytes with no idea whether something is newsworthy, or what anyone else in their organization is doing. If this is how day-to-day operations in the rest of VA are conducted it's no wonder they're going down the tubes.