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To: ShadowAce

In a word, No.
Linux is not a unified group working to a common goal. In my industry, manufacturing, software developers are not going to recompile or support different OSs. The computer ans OS is the least expensive part of the system I need and saving a couple hundred bucks for a free distro that no one supports is not practical. For consumers google, apple, and Microshaft have a huge foundation and hardware manufacturing. I don’t see any linux distros with the ability to compete, or the desire.


16 posted on 08/16/2014 8:48:41 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Organic Panic
Perhaps.

I work in the medical industry. We have a mixed shop with well over 1000 Windows servers and well over 700 Linux servers--if you count clusters as one server.

We standardized on Red Hat as they do support Linux--though we only need to call them (maybe) once per year. Our Linux servers perform better than the Windows servers. We have fewer people supporting the Linux servers for a few reasons--we can do more than the average Windows admin, and the Linux servers do not need as much maintenance as the average Windows server.

In our case, Linux is very practical.

20 posted on 08/16/2014 9:14:07 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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