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Three Windows to Linux Migrations (and Vice Versa)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the back-and-forth-back-and-forth dept.

daria42 writes "In this extended article, ZDNet Australia goes under the hood of three enterprises that moved their back end servers from Windows to Linux and open source software. Two of the companies ended up eventually going back to Microsoft, with the third one still going strong with Linux."

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  1. Re:Feeling homesick? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Informative

    Read The Fine Article more carefully. The businesses they're talking about didn't use Microsoft Windows. They went directly to Linux and have been running it for a long while. Coffey, for example, had standardized on Mandr[ake|iva] back in 1999. They came to the eventual conclusion that Linux wasn't meeting their needs, and so they went shopping. They (unsurprisingly, yet frustratingly) settled on Microsoft software.

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  2. Re:Skill problems by JWW · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't know what will happen with mods on this, but here goes....

    In my experience I've found a striking number of highly technical, free thinking, smart IT people absolutely REFUSE to learn anything about Linux. Their world is all windows and if you try to get them to open up to new ideas they put their hands over their ears and shout "Na, na, na, I'm not listening!!!".

    Of course that means that they really aren't the highly technical, free thinking, smart IT people they're making themselves out to be.