| gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:39:34 -0500 |
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 09:23:56AM -0500, William Shank wrote: > I'm putting together a win vs. linux business comparison and need to find > some numbers relating to installation, maintenance, service and other TCO > for both windows and linux. The side-by-side license comparison is a > no-brainer, the challenge is in the soft costs. Anyone know where I might > find this data? How 'bout: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22770.html Ho, ho, ho. Seriously, this kind of information is somewhat application-specific, so it'd help to know a little more about what kind of task is going to be performed. No need to violate an NDA, but are you talking about desktops in a business, servers in a business, servers sharing a lot of files with many writes, or with many reads, or with both... or a few large files? All of these kinds of interactions have been benchmarked, though probably not on your hardware with your kernel set up, so building a sample machine to do your own benchmarking and compare the results from a platform-independent benchmark software running on each OS on the same hardware would probably be a good idea. And that totally neglects what your management wants to see... do they want these systems to be hands off? Are they going to want to change things later? Someone else can probably provide the usual opinion write-ups (which I don't value particularly highly). I think it was mentioned at the last meeting that the UK version of PC World (or similar) had found KDE to beat out both Windows 2000 and Mac OS X in a useability study. They allegedly also tested other aspects than useability (including some that you list above), so you might try to find that. Keep in mind that there's no absolute guarantee that such a comparison will show Linux to be better; there *are* some things that Windows does faster, and it *is* easier for the less-trained to understand and administrate down the line. -- ~ g r @ eclipsed.net Attachment:
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