I think the author is being quite realistic. I manage around 45 different servers approx 10% are Linux based and strangely these boxes give us the most grief. We have had a succession of Linux Gurus come and go and still these boxes don't work quite right.
Our Solaris and Windows boxes, on the other hand, never have or rarely have any issues. It's important to note that most of our management tools are Windows Centric (which of course helps alot). But overall management wise the Windows boxes are really quite reliable. (yes even NT4 hehe).
Linux, to me at least, just isn't ready for prime time. I had a fantastic Solaris contractor bluntly tell me that Red Hat and Linux in general was not advisable in a production environment and at this point I tend to agree.
I guess that the Solaris guy, who competes with Linux, will have to explain why tons of Sun code just got dumped into the Linux world?
What are you running on those Linux boxes? Have you looked at the new Novell OES - Linux betas?
Wow a contractor from a competing company (which has lost a ton of market share to Linux) told you linux was not good... Ill also take his word for it. Linux is ready for prime time and companies like Amazon.com prove it every day.
I read on FR once Linux does not have a chance until my 70 year old grandmother can install it and use it, or something like that. I gotta agree. Every experience I have had with Linux has been one big clustermuck after another. I have one more project I am going to try Linux out on. If it does not work I am done with Linux. (LinuxFreaks FreepMe)
That's interesting. My experience has been pretty much the exact opposite (with the exception of Solaris). We've found over the years that Windows does not want to be good citizens with other OSes. Of course, like anything else, your mileage will vary.