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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Every shop I've ever worked in that has separate Windows and *nix teams has double or triple the ratio in the Windows environments. Windows servers run 90:1 - 120:1, while the *nix boxes run 25:1 - 40:1.


23 posted on 02/15/2006 10:41:31 AM PST by Doohickey (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
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To: Doohickey
Windows servers run 90:1 - 120:1, while the *nix boxes run 25:1 - 40:1.

If that is true I would look at the complexity of the applications being served: Windows servers tend to be glorified desktops acting as a fileserver or maybe just a webserver. Hell out of the 50 some odd production Windows boxes we run about 10-20% of them Are domain controllers!! What a waste!

We have probably 6:50 Windows and 2:25 Unix with two who float between the both as needed. If we had to pick a box to lose and never returned I could guarantee you I could list 30 Windows boxes before I got to one Unix box..

25 posted on 02/15/2006 10:53:13 AM PST by N3WBI3 (If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
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