TCO study: Linux wins again

The Age ^ | 12-13-2004 | Sam Varghese

[N3WBI3]

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[ShadowAce]

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[Terpfen]

The problem is that most IT/IS students aren't trained with Linux, and instead seek Microsoft certification. If you can hire enough Linux-knowledgable staffers, you're set. But they're a rare commodity.

[reagandemo]

"If you can hire enough Linux-knowledgable staffers, you're set. But they're a rare commodity." Ahhh no not really. A person with a good Unix background can do very well handling a Linux network. There are plenty of us (Unix people) out there.

[konaice]

Yup, study was HOPELESSLY biased in favor of WINDOWS (on purpose), and in spite of that the numbers still said 36% saving by moving to Linux.


Preditction: Here's where the Windows fans rush in again and say Linux is unuseable by mere mortals....

[mugs99]

I tried Mandrake Linux. I cannot fathom where they come up with these conclusions. Windows XP is lightyears ahead of Linux!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Wasn't there a recent study that said TCO was less with the microsoft products.....?

[jdege]

The problem is that MS certification is no indication that a candidate can handle the job.

[antiRepublicrat]

Wow, even heavily weighted the TCO comparison against Windows by removing some of the heaviest Windows costs and upping one of the Linux costs. Linux still came out ahead.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Windows XP is lightyears ahead of Linux!

Your conclusions are based on what????

[konaice]

The problem is that most IT/IS students aren't trained with Linux, and instead seek Microsoft certification. If you can hire enough Linux-knowledgable staffers, you're set. But they're a rare commodity.

The truth of the matter is that windwos Certification isn't work squat, and any teenager that has used windows for a few months can do as well as the certificate holders.

But the study took this into consideration, and it was STILL cheaper to retrain you windows techie that to keep on running windows.

[antiRepublicrat]

Whoops. Meant "for Windows"

[ShadowAce]

Windows XP is lightyears ahead of Linux!

What version of Linux? Are you talking Desktop or Server?

[Uncle Miltie]

Betamax was better than VHS!

Apple's operating system was better than Windows!

Direct Democracy is better than Republicanism!

Target is better than Wal-Mart!

[newgeezer]

Here's where the Windows fans rush in again and say Linux is unuseable by mere mortals....

Okay, here I am. "vi" is THE text editor from HELL.

;O)

[Terpfen]

I agree that Windows certification is meaningless. People still go for it and businesses still want it, though.

[N3WBI3]

If you can hire enough Linux-knowledgable staffers

Naa I cut my UNIX teeth on Solaris and I moved into Linux just fine.

[konaice]

Wasn't there a recent study that said TCO was less with the microsoft products.....?

Yup. Paid for by microsoft.

This study was actually performed by a Windows oriented company.

[KoRn]

"The problem is that MS certification is no indication that a candidate can handle the job."

You are right on the money. I'm sure there allot of good IT people with MS certs, but you don't have to be that good to get one. I have a Cisco certification(CCNA) and I was passing MS cert tests without even studying the material. Recently, I was speaking with the owner of a consulting firm and he said a CCNA cert(cisco's lowest) is equivalent to a MSCE cert(microsoft's highest).