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SMBs turn to the Penguin
According to a new study about one in four small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) now use the open source operating system Linux, and apparently the majority seem to think it is reliable and functional enough for mission-critical applications.
[blockquote]Two in five of the 200 IT managers quizzed by research firm Vanson Bourne said they had switched to Linux from Microsoft Windows.
Major reasons cited for moving to Linux from proprietary operating systems were lower costs (38 per cent), followed by performance, security and reliability (all at 23 per cent).
"More and more IT departments are willing to deploy Linux," said Nick Davis, EMEA Linux xSeries solutions sales manager at IBM, which sponsored the survey.
"UK customers are traditionally conservative in IT infrastructure but the survey shows they see the benefits beginning to outweigh the costs of changing."
As expected, Unix was the biggest casualty. Sun's Solaris, Hewlett Packard's HP-UX and IBM's AIX were displaced by Linux in 23, 15 and 12 per cent of sites respectively.
IBM's OS/400 lost eight per cent, while Windows NT and 2003 between them lost 42 per cent.
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[link=http://www.vnunet.com/News/1151364]The full report[/link]
[blockquote]Two in five of the 200 IT managers quizzed by research firm Vanson Bourne said they had switched to Linux from Microsoft Windows.
Major reasons cited for moving to Linux from proprietary operating systems were lower costs (38 per cent), followed by performance, security and reliability (all at 23 per cent).
"More and more IT departments are willing to deploy Linux," said Nick Davis, EMEA Linux xSeries solutions sales manager at IBM, which sponsored the survey.
"UK customers are traditionally conservative in IT infrastructure but the survey shows they see the benefits beginning to outweigh the costs of changing."
As expected, Unix was the biggest casualty. Sun's Solaris, Hewlett Packard's HP-UX and IBM's AIX were displaced by Linux in 23, 15 and 12 per cent of sites respectively.
IBM's OS/400 lost eight per cent, while Windows NT and 2003 between them lost 42 per cent.
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[link=http://www.vnunet.com/News/1151364]The full report[/link]
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