by Lyion » Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:55 am
IBM, Red Hat/Dell, and HP all provide excellent Linux support, so I'm missing what you are going after? All of them offer what you are asking for Tikker.
Do either of you do actual application development or anything but network support? There isn't a big gap between Linux and MS, except for the proprietary lock in. There are numerous commerciial applications for both, the difference being the cost for Linux is much much cheaper, and the stability is better.
Comparing development and roll out of any WEB application on Lamp versus 2003/Frontpage/SQL is an easy and overt win for Linux.
Most midsize offices can contract out LAMP and small database support cheaper for Linux, and with better results going through the above vendors, than doing the same thing on 2003 or NT. Small businesses cannot, but they usually don't have heavy IT departments.
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