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Windows Servers Beat Linux Servers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the say-it-aint-so dept.

RobbeR49 writes "Windows Server 2003 was recently compared against Linux and Unix variants in a survey by the Yankee Group, with Windows having a higher annual uptime than Linux. Unix was the big winner, however, beating both Windows and Linux in annual uptime. From the article: 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Linux distributions from "niche" open source vendors, are offline more and longer than either Windows or Unix competitors, the survey said. The reason: the scarcity of Linux and open source documentation.' Yankee Group is claiming no bias in the survey as they were not sponsored by any particular OS vendor."

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  1. an interesting reliable linux box by yagu · · Score: 1, Troll

    Don't think anyone's mentioned this yet...

    I know of some linux boxes that are amazingly reliable. I've owned three or four at least and on a couple of them I've had up times exceeding one year. No fuss, no muss.

    The box? TiVo. ymmv