[Techtalk] unix to linux migration- why?

[mc]

On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 12:22 -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:
> My little geekpersons, I am researching why anyone would want to ditch their 
> nice muscular Unix server- AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, whatever-the-hey- for some 
> ratty lil hippie OS like Linux or one of the BSDs. I will stipulate that 
> Linux/BSD are proven as good enough for just about anything; so what other 
> reasons would compel such a move?


Money for sure.  To use some perfectly horrid business TLA's, TCO and
ROI :)  

Linux tends to beat Unix on both of those from what I have heard.  With
clustering and such, you can add capacity rather cheaply also.



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mc
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