I haven't done an analysis of whether they're comparable, either on the basis of tech budget- or "computing horsepower per constituent served", but UVM's central technology organization (ETS) deploys primarily on Linux with commercial support. We are a mixed shop, certainly, but the preponderance of ETS-managed servers run Linux. May even support a greater "hp"-per-capita-per-dollar ratio than the City...
Cheers, -sth sam hooker | [email protected] | http://www.noiseplant.com Morte infernorum raptor libri moriatur. On Jun 13, 2013, at 22:30, joe golden <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > it has come to my attention that the city of Burlington is questioning the > value of non MS based systems and contemplating an all MS shop for the city > infrastructure and their webservers. There may be security or legal reasons > that they want to host sites themselves. > > Are there local organizations with a solid *nix infrastructure that the city > of Burlington can relate to that we can point to as Open Source successes on > the technological and financial fronts? As a Burlington taxpayer, I > appreciate that the city is trying to save $ and I suspect this idea is > coming in under the "cost savings" umbrella. > > In this analysis the licensing costs are only one consideration of many. > Other considerations might be > > * availability of sys admins > * cost of sys administration in time and $ > * skill set of current IT employees > * system robustness, security and throughput > * long term support > * hardware costs and availability > > I know CCTV (Chittenden Community Television) is a Linux shop that handles a > lot of traffic and has a lot going on with it's tech dept. Where are some > other *nix success stories on a scale and budget of the City of Burlington? > > Thanx all. > -- > Joe Golden /_\ www.Triangul.us /_\ Coding, Drupalism and Open Sourcery
