[ShadowAce]

Priced comparibly to Linux?

That caught my eye, also. I'm assuming they are still referring to their bogus study on TCO.

[BigTex5]

Yeah, plus I'd say 99% of the HPC binaries are for Unix. Someone would have to port the programs to Windows. We use several programs that were discontinued by the authors from 1999. Source code ain't available.

[antiRepublicrat]

I'm assuming they are still referring to their bogus study on TCO.

I'd love to see them try that. TCO on a cluster is totally different from what they're used to doing. They're used to saying that training will kill the value of any switch, but in this market everybody's already used to UNIX variants.

Well, except for Cornell, which has the one Windows system on the Top500, down at #310. But Microsoft is about to start pumping money ($400K/year) into them so they can set up a bigger one. You know you're hurting when you have to pay someone to use your stuff.

[DesScorp]

That infamous TCO study HAS to be based on Red Hat's prices, which are stupid and exhorbant. Use Debian instead and your prices are support staff, period.

Red Hat got their profitability, but they got it by throwing away their mindshare, which will haunt them in the long run. There as a time when virtually every new Linux user tried Red Hat first.