Linux Beats Windows AGAIN
A new report by Cybersource claims that for a 250-seat company, Linux has a lower total cost of ownership than Windows.
High points:
- Linux needed 82 percent fewer staff resources.
- Costs which arose when systems need to be pre-emptively rebooted or crashed, resulting in unscheduled downtime, were not taken into account. "All our research indicates that Linux rarely if ever suffers such problems and open source platforms on the whole are extremely robust," Zymaris said.
- "Finally, because Microsoft has claimed that introducing Linux into an environment will lead to increased reliance on external consultants, we have tripled the amount budgeted for such requirements on the Linux models," he said.
and it's still lower by 37%.
Here's the pdf. [2.0M] [
local copy]
Posted by yakuza at December 14, 2004 01:54 PM
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