Study Shows Microsoft, Linux Neck-And-Neck

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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Most U.S. businesses say there is very little difference between the cost of maintaining a Windows versus a Linux-based corporate computing environment, according to a new Yankee Group study released on Monday.

The main cost difference, said Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio, is determined by the amount of time it takes to develop applications or ensure the security of servers, the networked computers that store data, crunch numbers and serve up Web pages.

"What we found is that costs are not really dependent on the underlying functionality in the core operating system," DiDio said.

In the independent study, 88 percent of respondents said that the quality, performance and reliability of Windows was equal to or better than Linux.


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Vikingod

Found this to be pretty interesting, maybe not surprising, but interesting still the same. Interested in what some of you guys in the field believe, especially those that work with Linux and windows.