Re: Get the facts about sagging Linux server sales
Posted by: Anonymous
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on November 15, 2007 08:18 AM
Excellent article.
From my personal experience with a Fortune 500 company I get to see a huge (well why not the FUDsters do it) amount of Linux machines being sold into the telecommunications and corporate sector and usually at the expense of MS Windows machines. The thing is with regard to servers and blades there is no Microsoft tax so customer usually have to pay for the software and the installation of it and there is no prize for guessing which is the cheaper. Of course if you make the new machine production management usually dictates that a software and eventually hardware subscription is paid and Linux is still cheaper. When a MS Windows machine is required depending on the application (normally MS Windows specific) we find that you may need three or even five machines to do what one Linux machine can do so I can see were the skew comes from the Microsoft camp.
Unfortunately large companies still prefer (normally dictated by management) Microsoft on the desktop but over 95% of all applications on the desktop can be performed by Linux ones and without re-training but try and convince Microsoft centric managers of that. At least the company I work for allows people to choose their own desktop OS providing they can do their work (a catch 22 for me but I do have a dual boot) and over 16,000 people have taken this up.
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Re: Get the facts about sagging Linux server sales
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 15.211.153.72] on November 15, 2007 08:18 AMFrom my personal experience with a Fortune 500 company I get to see a huge (well why not the FUDsters do it) amount of Linux machines being sold into the telecommunications and corporate sector and usually at the expense of MS Windows machines. The thing is with regard to servers and blades there is no Microsoft tax so customer usually have to pay for the software and the installation of it and there is no prize for guessing which is the cheaper. Of course if you make the new machine production management usually dictates that a software and eventually hardware subscription is paid and Linux is still cheaper. When a MS Windows machine is required depending on the application (normally MS Windows specific) we find that you may need three or even five machines to do what one Linux machine can do so I can see were the skew comes from the Microsoft camp.
Unfortunately large companies still prefer (normally dictated by management) Microsoft on the desktop but over 95% of all applications on the desktop can be performed by Linux ones and without re-training but try and convince Microsoft centric managers of that. At least the company I work for allows people to choose their own desktop OS providing they can do their work (a catch 22 for me but I do have a dual boot) and over 16,000 people have taken this up.
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