Study shows Microsoft, Linux neck-and-neck
Reuters | at | by Mike
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. In the independent study, 88 percent of respondents said that the quality, performance and reliability of Windows was equal to or better than Linux.
In most cases, both Linux and Windows are growing at the expense of Sun Microsystems Unix-based servers, which were instrumental in the growth of the Internet during the 1990s.