Linux/Apache Wins TCO Survey

cant_get_a_good_nick writes "From this week's Apacheweek comes a link to a white paper discussing Total Cost of Ownership for Linux in the Enterprise. Some very good hard numbers here, although as always, YMMV. It shows that even with "expensive UNIX admins" having to switch over costs to a "new UNIX", admin costs are lower than for Windows or Solaris. Some great quotes too, I can see these plastered in posts for weeks to come. I wish they could have included FreeBSD in the survey, but all in all interesting."

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Why not on the main page?

[Perdo]

Sure this story confirms what we all knew. Microsoft even admitted it. But this is great ammo and could use better exposure. How many "ask slashdot" stories have we seen with some admin looking for just this sort of ammo to convince his bosses that Linux deployment was worthwile...

On another note, wouldn't it have been nice to see more platforms included? X serve, FreeBSD, SGI, Alpha/Tru64 and Power 4 would have made good additions. Perhaps, if this is not just biased "Linux is the best because we didn't bother including good competitors", we could see some further research on this subject.