I’ll call bull on that. I oversee a number of Admins.
I have one guy at a site managing over 70 W2K3 servers, and 1 guy looking after 5, FIVE! nix servers.
Take a guess which guy has the most issues, the most downtime and is the most difficult to deal with. We have been through numerous (and I mean numerous) Unix “Gurus” and the problems never seem to go away.
My CIO one afternoon once made it clear that if he ever saw a “free” piece of software in our environment again, well I like my job.
Also if you think that in the rest of the corporate world it’s any different, I know a ton of companies shoving “open source” software out into the trash as fast as they can.
You need to come to my world.
We’re getting ready to replace VMS (a whole ‘nother story) and according to the two Linux proponents at work, it is the savior of all mankind. It never breaks, it’s easy to administer, security is very easy to administrate, exploits are easily patches, etc.
I’m not saying I disagree or agree, but we are talking about what will be a production critical system. I’d like people to be a bit more objective and thoughtful about the OS and what it will take to maintain - that’s hardly possible when one is accused of being a Linux hater, blah, blah, blah when questions about job scheduler/batcher and the like are raised.
Meanwhile, companies like the New York Stock Exchange are pulling it back in rather quickly.
Plus, Mac uptake is drastically on the rise, and OS X is crammed full of free software.
BTW, every one of your W2K3 servers has free software on it.