whitepaper request

[George Toft]

I saw an awesome paper, but I cannot find the URL now.  Here's what
I found that may help.


Interesting LUG email:
http://clue.denver.co.us/pipermail/clue-talk/2002-February/003335.html


praetor.bus.utexas.edu/liebrock/Gartner/nt_v_linux/
Linux-Windows%20Comparative%20Analysis%20May%202000%20RC3.2.pdf 

Problem with this study, in the TCO arena, is that they approach it
from "You have to learn Windows" or "You have to learn Linux" (see
page 25).  In reality, the company will hire people that know their
job.

Page 27, fortunately addresses downtime.  My own study (Master's
Thesis on TCO of Workgroup Servers - http://georgetoft.com/thesis/results)
covered downtime extensively, and corroborates this study.


This paper does not address downtime:
http://www.cyber.com.au/cyber/about/linux_vs_windows_tco_comparison.pdf
Microsoft says downtime is a small percentage of the TCO, but, it would 
appear that other research is contradicting them (including my own).


Sorry I couldn't find the one I was looking for.

George



technomage wrote:
> 
> this is something that a senior cox engineer brought to my attention.
> we need to commission or present a white paper on the viability of linux
> within the cox.net system.
> 
> Reason is this: they are running some windows servers and the techs are
> starting to look at alternatives.
> if we can convert cox.net to 100% linux (or as close to that as possible), it
> will free up some time spent troubleshooting server problems and let the
> techs actually work on real problems for a change.
> 
> We would need to have a focus for the paper (as seen from a suit's point of
> view: "how much is this going to cost?" and also from the technician pov:
> "how easy is it to setup?").
> 
> Personally, I feel we need as much data as possible to support a premise for
> getting cox.net switched over. I've already run across a few UNIX heads in
> the tech support staff and 1 or 2 linux users that run at home. if management
> and the stockholders can be convinced, well.....
> 
> just a few thoughts.
> 
> Technomage
> 
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