It's a WASH: Linux vs MS TCO is about the SAME (according to some studies)

I came across this interesting article today about companies that are migrating from Unix to Linux or Microsoft are tending to choose Microsoft over Linux because the TCO is lower.

Read here to find out what the studies showed: https://www.betanews.com/article/Study_Linux_and_Windows_Costs_Equal/1159218430

This ties into a similar conversation I had with a colleague about a project being proposed for replacing Unix servers, and the curiousity of what advantages they had for wanting to migrate them to Linux. Was it the hope to reduce costs? Did they have the staff who could support it? Were these things being taken into account?

This can quickly lead to the question of whether TCO is something that matters as much to decision makers...but that is a discussion to have another day...

It is interesting to go down the path of measuring the impacts to the ecosystem that is the infrastructure when you make sweeping assumptions to make decisions. Most often, capturing the impacts into hard numbers is tricky. If you want to get some perspective  on that, visit my esteemed colleague Lewis Curtis' blog site  forhis thoughts about that.

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