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On average, individual enterprise Windows, Linux, and Unix servers experienced 3 to 5 failures per server per year in 2005, generating 10 to 19.5 hours of annual downtime for each server.

So they are considering failures down time but not maintenance associated with defragmenting and and patching. My boss does not care why the system is down only that it is down.

But standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Linux distributions from "niche" open source vendors, are offline more and longer than either Windows or Unix competitors, the survey said.

I seriously question this, but like these types of articles on *every* side of an OS debate until you see how they collect the data the summary is pretty useless. Who was setting up the systems? My linux systems experience an issue that requires a reboot at most once a year.

The reason: the scarcity of Linux and open source documentation.

This is what I am talking about while there is a need for better organization of the documentation out there if you know what youre doing there is just as much, if not more.

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Good article debunking a previous study on the same subject by the same group..

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2005/04/the_truth_about_1.html