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Quoting Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx>:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1Yep I'd have thought they would have some sort of testing lab to test updates before rolling them out. At a previous company I used to work for they would generally delay updates for testing for about a fortnight to test against all the different systems, unless that is it was an ultra urgent update.Last company where I worked at doing some form of MS admin we looked at that: To test you need as many servers for the test as you have live so that costs you twice as much in licenses!!! Tom te tom te tomAnd MS claim that windows has a lower total cost of ownership Seriously though we have yet more material here to talk about at any meeting, here we have a real world example of how expensive commercial software is, if you take this additional cost, how much would that compare to a roll out of Linux servers, + training and other costs. Paul
To be honest I don't think we can say everyone would save money by moving to Linux, it isn't a one size fits all thing here.
Some companies have specific needs and maybe software that will not run on Linux, maybe legacy software, lots of in house software which would be too costly to convert, or specific hardware.
I honestly think that things should be done on a case by case basis. There probably are a fair few smaller businesses and maybe larger ones too who could make the switch easily and maybe save money, but there are bound to be other companies who it wouldn't work out cost effective.
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