[plug] Windows vs Linux - the true cost

Richard Meyer meyerri at au1.ibm.com
Wed Nov 12 11:27:24 WST 2003





Oldish, but still good.

http://www.techworld.com/features/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayfeature&FeatureID=142




<quote>

For a medium-sized organisation, computing platform is somehow double, the
software platform an incredible seven times more expensive, software
maintenance two-and-a-half times larger and skills double.


How? Well, first of all, it is assumed that anyone using Linux will
automatically go for BEA WebLogic and Oracle's database and cough up the
surprisingly high licences for each. Why this would be the case when the
companies could use highly-rated open source databases and scripting
languages like MySQL and PHP for almost no cost is somewhat of a mystery.

</quote>

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