Gartner: Desktop Linux savings overstated
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
In the latest of a series of Linux versus Windows papers to be published by research companies recently, Gartner said that while many servers are dedicated to running a single application, and can therefore be replaced quite easily, the desktop environment is more difficult. Most workers use many different applications, all of which would have to be replaced or rewritten, it said.
Last week, Microsoft released benchmark results that, it said, showed that Linux on the mainframe performed poorly against Windows 2003 in terms of value for money.
Earlier this week, Forrester Research Inc. released a Microsoft-commissioned report saying that creating and maintaining a custom Web-based application with Java and Linux is almost 40 percent more expensive than using Microsoft software.