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Businesses Slow to Adopt Linux

Posted by michael on from the penguin-and-the-hare dept.

milenko81 and several others submitted this CNET story about corporate spending on information technology. The reporter seems to interpret it negatively because Fortune 1000 companies aren't dumping Microsoft 100% and going for Linux. But interpret it as you will.

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  1. Re:Not commercial = bad? by ChazeFroy · · Score: 5, Informative

    It takes X amount of years to integrate a system into your infrastructure. It also takes X amount of years to remove a system from your infrastructure.

    Say a company has spent 5 years integrating NT systems into their department. That usually means it will take another 5 years to get rid of it.

    Linux will not be an overnight success...it will take time to supplant Microsoft.

  2. Re:Cost of linux administration cost of windows by MacGabhain · · Score: 5, Informative

    False.
    The cost of adminning Windows servers is considerably higher than the cost of adminning Unix servers (of any flavor). You can cover far fewer servers with a single admin, and you need at least 3 times the number of physical boxen than you do with Unix systems because a: Windows scales horribly and only runs on hardware designed to be workstations b: Windows requires at least two redundant servers for each primary server to maintain the uptimes of any Unix c: Windows is only able to perform properly if each box only runs one particular server function. Put a print server, a web server and a file server on the same box and none of them will work well (well by Windows standards).