Your Choice Between Windows And Linux

[Alex Snow]

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I never liked Didio. she's involved in the sco case if I remember 
correctly.
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 07:04:02PM -0500, Allan Shaw wrote:
>       * Your Choice Between Windows And Linux
> 
> A few weeks ago, subscribers filled out a very
> interesting survey of the Yankee Group about the
> total cost of ownership, comparing Windows to Linux. Here is the
> promised Linux Windows Unix TCO Executive Summary by Laura Didio,
> Senior Analyst, the Yankee Group.
> 
> "Does Linux deliver significantly better performance,
> reliability, manageability and ultimately lower Total Cost of
> Ownership (TCO) and faster Return on Investment (ROI) than the
> rival Windows and Unix operating system platforms?
> 
> Approximately 1,000 of you responded to our survey on those
> questions. And you answered Yes. And No.
> 
> Yes, corporate customers report Linux does indeed provide
> businesses with excellent performance, reliability, ease of
> use and security. No, hype notwithstanding, Linux' technical
> merits while first-rate, are equivalent but for the most part,
> not superior to Unix and Windows Server 2003.
> 
> And in large enterprises, a significant Linux deployment or
> total switch from Windows to Linux, would be three to four
> times more expensive and take three times as long to deploy
> as an upgrade from one version of Windows to newer Windows
> releases.
> 
> The instances where Linux imparts measurably improved TCO
> compared with Unix and Windows are in small firms with
> customized vertical applications or "Greenfield" networking
> situations.
> 
> The most surprising survey revelation 90% of the 300 large
> enterprises with 10,000+ end users indicated that a significant
> or total switch from Windows to Linux would be prohibitively
> expensive, extremely complex and time consuming and not provide
> any tangible business gains for the organization.
> 
> The survey further found that though Linux' momentum is
> undeniable, the Open Source operating system will not dethrone
> Microsoft's Windows as the leading server vendor in the next
> two years. And Linux desktops will not even make a perceptible
> dent in the 94% market share currently held by Windows desktops
> between now and 2006.
> 
> Only 4 percent of Unix customers and 11 percent of Windows
> businesses plan to replace all of their servers with Linux.
> And less than 5% of organizations will replace their Windows
> desktops with Linux.
> 
> The overwhelming majority of the survey respondents said Linux
> is under evaluation. Licenses aside, Linux is most assuredly
> not free -- a fact that corporations now begin to realize.
> 
> Survey Highlights
> 
> Among the other survey highlights
> 
> - To date, most of the defections to Linux are coming at the
>   expense of mid-range Unix systems and not Windows.
> - The lure of Linux for Unix shops is the extreme cost savings
>   of the hardware.
> - Some 21% indicated they would migrate a portion of their
>   Windows desktops to Linux; 15% said they will add Linux
>   desktops but will not replace Windows and the majority -- 57%
>   said they plan no changes to their Windows desktop environment.
> - A 54% majority of customers said they will leave their Windows
>   servers intact; 25% reported they will migrate "a portion" of
>   their Windows servers to Linux for specialized application
>   tasks.
> - Red Hat is the Linux vendor of choice for 46% of corporations,
>   followed by Novell (SuSE and Ximian) with 19%. IBM and HP are
>   far back with 9% and 4%.
> - A 76% majority rated Linux and Unix reliability comparable.
> - The biggest area of concern for Windows 2000 and Windows 2003
>   customers is the amount of time spent installing security fixes
>   and performing patch management. Security and patch management
>   aside, the overwhelming majority of businesses -- 72% rated
>   Windows reliability equal to Linux.
> - A majority of large enterprises with 5,000+ end users said
>   they will not install Linux as their primary server OS in the
>   foreseeable future because it is much more expensive and
>   requires from 25% to 40% more Full Time Equivalent (FTE)
>   support specialists than Windows or Unix for that matter.
> - Linux' lack of licensing indemnification is becoming more of
>   a concern. Although 55% of businesses said it is "not a concern"
>   45% indicated it is an issue. That is a sharp increase from
>   the 8% of companies who said they were concerned in 2003.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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