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Linux From A CIO's Perspective

Posted by Zonk on from the look-at-all-the-penguins-down-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CIO.com has a story on Linux and OSS in the enterprise from the perspective of the CIO of Cendant Travel Distribution Services, Mickey Lutz. 'In the summer of 2003, Mickey Lutz did something that most CIOs, even today, would consider unthinkable: He moved a critical part of his IT infrastructure from the mainframe and Unix to Linux. For Lutz, the objections to Linux, regarding its technical robustness and lack of vendor support, had melted enough to justify the gamble.' His organization saved 90% in costs in so doing. Read on if you want to see how the top brass views OSS."

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  1. Linux beats Unix on cost by bedroll · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only thing that makes this news is that a CIO actually recognized it.

  2. Re:Difficult, but big payoff by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Take a tweak which gains a 1% performance gain, multiply that against 4000 machines, and it's quite an advantage.

    Let's see . . . that's . . . [pencil scratching] . . . 1%! Amazing!