Re: Good source of linux tco studies?

Well, it looks like you've supplied your own TCO study when you said "...with the volume of data we are dealing with, it would disrupt normal company operation to do anything else."

Why not just explain the issues involved to your boss and the specific advantages for your situation?

That said, a quick web search found that Linux has half the TCO of Windows and double the performance of a Sun solution.

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Re: Good source of linux tco studies? by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 18, 2003 at 09:19 UTC
Of course that was a study for a unrealistic situation. I quickread through the document, and it discussed a server park (web services), without saying anything about a backup solution, high availability, etc. Usually, SLAs will mention availability and maximum restore times. I don't want to dismiss the document, but I do want to stress out to not use it to generalize. It does discuss TCO of a specific setup - and can't be taken as a general comparison between Linux, Windows and Solaris (I doubt that's even possible). Abigail	[reply]

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Re: Good source of linux tco studies?
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 18, 2003 at 09:19 UTC

I don't want to dismiss the document, but I do want to stress out to not use it to generalize. It does discuss TCO of a specific setup - and can't be taken as a general comparison between Linux, Windows and Solaris (I doubt that's even possible).

Abigail

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