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[News] Company Saves a Fortune by Choosing GNU/Linux over Windows

  • Subject: [News] Company Saves a Fortune by Choosing GNU/Linux over Windows
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 01:36:15 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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E-tailer cuts licensing costs with Linux server

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| An online retailer has saved more than £56,000 in software licensing costs 
| after moving its IT platform from Microsoft Windows to Linux. 
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/09/24/226987/e-tailer-cuts-licensing-costs-with-linux-server.htm


Related (from HPT):

http://www.levanta.com/linuxstudy/index.shtml

http://www.levanta.com/linuxstudy/EMA_Levanta-Linux_RR.pdf

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| Executive Summary
|
| In various older studies, Microsoft and some analysts claimed 
| Linux has a higher Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) than
| Windows. They attributed the difference mainly to higher system 
| management costs, and concluded that the higher TCO
| outweighed the much lower license and acquisition costs for Linux.
| However, in a new study of over 200 Linux enterprises, Enterprise 
| Management Associates (EMA) found that this
| perception is no longer accurate. Sophisticated management tools 
| now allow Linux management to be fast, effective, and
| inexpensive. With far lower acquisition costs, Linux is now a 
| cost-effective alternative to Windows.
| EMA analyzed the cost factors cited in previous studies and found 
| the following results:
|      • Provisioning – 75% of administrators using sophisticated 
| tools can provision a system in less than 1 hour; one
|         third can provision a system in less than 30 minutes.
|      • Patch management – most Linux administrators spend less 
| than 5 minutes per server per week on patch management.
|         Sophisticated management tools reduce this effort even 
| further.
|      • Configuration management – supporting multiple versions of 
| a given distribution has no discernible impact on
|         Linux management. In some cases, respondents actually had 
| more versions of Windows than Linux.
|      • Reliability – most respondents reported 99.99% or higher 
| availability for their Linux systems. A significant number
|         (17%) report no downtime at all.
|      • Problem resolution – in over 60% of cases, when problems 
| occur in Linux environments they are diagnosed and
|         repaired in less than 30 minutes, over 8 times faster 
| than industry average.
|      • Management and support – 88% of enterprises with Linux and 
| Windows spend less effort managing Linux; 97%
|         believe it is, at worst, the same for both systems. 
| Respondents with sophisticated management tools all report
|         Linux management is the same or easier than Windows 
| management.
|      • Storage management – enterprises with sophisticated 
| management tools did not find any significant difference in
|         storage management effort or utilization for either 
| Windows or Linux.
|      • Resource costs – most administrators, for either Linux or 
| Windows, earn under $60k. Salaries for combined
|         Linux/Windows administrators are only marginally higher 
| than for Linux-only administrators. Linux skills are
|         readily available.
|      • Consulting and training costs – 79% of enterprises spent 
| nothing on Linux consulting, and 63% spent nothing on
|         training. Only 4% spent over $10K on consulting or training.
| In addition, this research found the following in areas not 
| adequately addressed in previous studies:
|      • Acquisition costs – for similar environments, Linux 
| acquisition costs can be almost $60,000 less per server than
|         Windows in software costs alone. Windows also incurs 
| higher hardware costs.
|      • Productivity – Linux tends to be more productive, as Linux 
| administrators tend to manage more servers than
|         Windows administrators, and Linux systems tend to handle 
| greater workloads than Windows systems.
|      • Security Management – 75% of Linux administrators spend 
| less than 10 minutes per server per week managing
|         security. With sophisticated management tools, this goes 
| up to over 85%.
|      • Virus and Spyware Management – 95% of Linux administrators 
| with sophisticated tools spend less than 10
|         minutes per server per week managing viruses and spyware. 
| Respondents strongly endorsed Linux as inherently
|         less vulnerable. No administrator reported spending more 
| time on Linux than Windows.
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