Linux Gains Respect from Enterprise

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Clear advantages on usability and TCO related benefits are turning the tide in favor Linux usage within enterprise segment today.

Over the past few years, Linux adoption rates in the enterprise have increased to encouraging levels. Enterprise users have quoted a wide range of TCO and ROI benefits, and as a result Linux has become a favorite strategic platform for business applications for a good number of enterprises.

More and more enterprises are today discovering that it is Linux that is providing them with TCO and helping them build better IT systems within the enterprise. As a result, key buyers and IT decision makers across a range of industries, are turning to Linux for better application delivery at a reduced cost.

Because it would be difficult, if not impossible, to evaluate every possible application stack in a single study, CIOs can examine an application infrastructure layer common to most enterprises – application servers.

The application server is a critical infrastructure component for many companies, and thus represents an ideal target for operating system selection. Because the specific workload profile will have a dramatic impact on the variance in TCO, experts in the industry recommend doing any work analysis this way. IT users should treat with skepticism any studies that do not make such workload distinctions.

Experts from the industry have given a new view into how costs have shifted as Linux adoption rates have increased. As Linux has matured, the TCO gap between Linux and Microsoft Windows has narrowed as commercial product vendors have introduced lower-priced offerings in an attempt to compete with Linux.

And additionally, Linux buyers now treat the platform as they would a commercial product, purchasing the same support offerings, management tools, and other facilities that they would on any other platform. Major vendors now offer a broad range of Linux support options, and most customers make use of these offerings in an efficient manner that is most beneficial for the enterprise customers.