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Midsize Businesses Not Considering Linux?

Posted by Zonk on from the caught-in-the-middle dept.

LukePieStalker writes "eWeek is running a piece about a research report which concludes that Linux is not even on the radar screen for midsize businesses. The survey involved over 1,400 executives of companies with annual revenue around $250 to $500 million. It seems that, while smaller companies may see the licensing savings as being significant, and larger companies have the expertise to manage it, bringing Linux into a midsize Windows shop creates a multiplatform organization which is prohibitively complicated and expensive to manage. Unfortunately, companies of this size comprise the bulk of American business. Quote: "Linux is free, but the support for it is not.""

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  1. magnitude by bersl2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linux is not even on the radar screen for midsize businesses. The survey involved over 1,400 executives of companies with annual revenue around $250 to $500 million.

    That's midsize?!

  2. ummm.. by Beatbyte · · Score: 4, Funny

    Linux is free, but the support for it is not.

    Microsoft now supplies free IT employees with their expensive OS?

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  3. They don't use Linux.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    because FreeBSD is better.

  4. Maybe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Midsize Businesses fear multiplatform organization which is prohibitively complicated and expensive to manage?

    Maybe it's a sign that we're all a little nervous in the post-9/11 world.

  5. Re:Something to Think About by vettemph · · Score: 3, Funny

    > softwear
    Does that come in a size nine? :)

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  6. Re:I work at one of these so called mid rangers by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Now granted I consider myself a top notch linux admin but I don't make any more money that anyone else.

    And that's the problem! Here you are taking the jobs away from five or six Windows administrators that are now panhandling or something! Good God, man! You're single handedly destroying the entire IT economy as we sit here! Have you no shame?!?!!

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  7. Moderation help by linuxpaul · · Score: 2, Funny
    Linux is free, but the support for it is not.

    How do you mark an entire article "-1 Troll"?

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