Linux More Costly Than Windows
Tuesday, 6 April 2004 16:22 EST
According to a new Yankee Group survey of 1,000 IT administrators and C-level executives worldwide, for large enterprises, a platform switch from Windows to Linux is in fact more expensive than upgrading to newer versions of Windows. Probably the most shocking survey revelation of its kind, 90 percent of the 300 large enterprises with 10,000 or more end users indicated that a significant or total switch from Windows to Linux would be prohibitively expensive, extremely complex and time consuming, and would not provide any tangible business gains for the organization.
"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 than an upgrade from one version of Windows to newer Windows releases," said Laura Didio, Yankee Group application infrastructure & software platforms senior analyst.
"The instances where Linux imparts measurably improved TCO compared with Unix and Windows, are in small firms with customized vertical applications or new, greenfield networking situations," added Didio.
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