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Mindbridge Saves "Bunches of Money" In Switch To Linux
While Mindbridge didn't start out as an open source company, it has since managed to save what they can only describe as "bunches of money" by switching to Linux. "Today, Mindbridge has repurposed itself as an open-source-friendly company, and revamped its infrastructure to run completely on Linux and other open source software. 'Having deployed [Linux servers] to our customers, we turned around and said, we can do the same thing internally and save bunches of money. We began a systematic but slow flipping of servers from the Microsoft world over to predominantly Linux — although there are a few BSD boxes around as well,' Christian says. 'It's to the point that today I only have two production Windows servers left, out of 15 or so.'"
If Slashdot had even a shred of interest in maintaining and kind of credibility, they'd note that the "article" that they're linking to is at linux.com. Both are owned by Sourceforge, Inc. (Formerly VA Linux, then OSDN, now Sourceforge). This is nothing but a cheap way to earn more pageviews.
I don't respond to AC's.
I'm guessing he means something along the lines of shared groups, from Active Directory. Two file servers, one group of defined users - set the group allow permission on both servers and add users in AD and they get access on both servers. How do you do that easily on Linux? I'm genuinely curious!
Windows admins who don't bother with ACL's are clearly too dumb to use windows properly, imo..