How is it that I never see these reports dealing with the costs of worms etc. with MS systems. When I was at GE they had downtime at least every month with Access, Exchange, SQL server and even Oracel. These were running on Windows 2000 server.
I was working on a contract during august through october on a contract and I saw Access lose 3 days data, I saw exchange down at least 3 times, I saw Squeel server down 4 times and I saw oracle down once. Oh yeah, I saw file serving down for an afternoon during the Blaster attack! At one of my jobs I was the guy that managed the linux file server. It also ran Bugzilla. When I got it setup it ran for six months without any maintenance. I'm not much of a sysadmin, but given a linux server, if I could'nt keep longer uptimes than the guys at GE then I would quit. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jason Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2004 11:41 pm Subject: [clug-talk] Yankee Group report questions TCO for switch to Linux > http://www.integratedmar.com/ecl-usa/story.cfm?item=18141 > > I am not familiar enough with the actual economics of large scale > networks to comment on this. Any opinions from those in the know would > be interesting. > > If Linux professionals "demand premiums on their salaries" will they > actually get them? > > Is the warranty extensions offered by Microsoft, for a large company > that valuable when compared to the cost of buying a license > (relative to > the above noted "premium" for one/several Linux professionals)? > > Thanks > -- > Jason Hayes - Principal > Hayes Holdings Consulting > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.hayz.ws > Suite #1936 - 246 Stewart Green SW > Calgary, AB, Canada T3H 3C8 > Ph: 403.260.5202 > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
