Fact-Filled Survey of Linux Administrators Shows (Guess What!) Linux Is Cheaper and Quicker to Maintain

The fine folks at Linux-Watch.com have posted an article on this survey. See also the E-Week article on the survey.

"After years of putting up with Microsoft's anti-Linux half-truths in its Get-the-FUD campaign, Linux supporters are finally striking back.

But if that's all this report was, I'd barely bother with it.

What's different about this report from Microsoft's endless series of anti-Linux reports is that it focuses on the hard evidence of uptime, management and software costs, and system administrator costs per server and user. ...

The survey of over 200 responses, from mostly SMBs (small-to-medium businesses) with from less than 20 servers to over a 1000 servers, found that 'Over half of the respondents can provision a new Linux server in less than 1 hour, and 20% can do so in less than 20 minutes. For sites with sophisticated tools, over 75% spent less than 1 hour to provision a new Linux system and one third could provision the OS in less then 20 minutes. None took longer than 5 hours.' "

Show it to your boss. Show it to your reports. Show it to your friends, take it to the LUG. (Not that it's news to anyone who uses Linux.) This is great.

• Get the survey.
  
• Read about people talking about the survey on Linux Watch and Eweek.

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Comments

[Miguel Guhlin]

Thanks for sharing, Solveig!! Folks are starting to talk about thin clients, too.

Miguel

P.S. You're a female! This is fascinating. I'm going to point my 12 year old daughter to your web site. She uses OpenOffice (only choice, hehe). I still go into shock when I get an attachment from her, though...if only more grown-ups knew how send attachments made in OpenOffice.

[Solveig]

Hi Miguel,

Thanks for writing! Thin clients are great. The city of Largo FL (http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2006/01/what_im_learnin.html) among others has a rockin' setup.

Re being female, for a while, because of my Exotic Norwegian Name and male being the default gender, I was referred to as "he" on the [email protected] mailing list. I got a kick out of it and let it go til I was outed by someone who'd read my bio on the back of one of my books.

Do you have articles on change management, i.e. getting people to love changing to open source, among your writings? I'm always looking to learn more since that's a big part of what I do in class.

Solveig