[Slugnet] Enterprise Linuxes vs Win Server comparison?

[Jett Tayer]

On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 09:34 +0800, Anand Vaidya wrote:
> Hi 
> 
> 
> 
> I again heard the claim that a certain Enterprise Linux is way too
> expensive compared to WS2003 and hence a certain company moved from EL
> back to W2003 (dont ask me names)
> 
> 
> 
> So my question is this: Superficially EL does seem to be more
> expensive (eg: roughly S$10000 x3 for RHEL 3year) vs one time W2003
> (say S$1400). But many people do not consider the hidden costs of a
> windows server - 
> 

The only price i see here that is expensive is Linux sysadmins'
salary :)

Cheers
Jett
> 
> 
> - antivirus + perf degradation
> - CALs 
> - per call support charges
> - more sysadmins are needed
> - Anything extra costs money (eg: decent backups, network
> installations, OS imaging)
> - How does discounts affect the costs?
> - Guest VM count
> - W2003 comes with absolutely no other app, EL comes with OOffice, Dev
> env, databases, complete web stack etc etc
> - Does MS directly offer 24x7 , at what price? How much is the cost of
> a per server license when volumes are considered?
> 
> 
> 
> A google search turns up vendor marketing fluff (esp. MS) which I do
> not trust.
> 
> 
> 
> So, my question is this: Have you been in a situation where you can
> choose either , and did a thorough comparison? Any insights to share?
> Or have you seen a non-partisan comparison anywhere?
> 
> 
> 
> Regards
> Anand
> 
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