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Fear holds back Linux adoption (vnunet)

[Posted February 24, 2003 by ris]

This vnunet article looks at a report from AMR Research that says many companies still have technical and support fears that keep them from adopting Linux. "AMR said that Linux should be considered for non-mission-critical applications where cost and reliability are critical factors, adding that corporate policies should be refined with guidelines for evaluating and using open source software."

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Posted Feb 27, 2003 18:57 UTC (Thu) by HenryHartley (guest, #5630) [Link]

So, for "non-mission-critical applications where cost and reliability are critical factors" use Linux. I guess that means for mission-critical applications where reliability is NOT a critical factor you should use something else.

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Henry