Can a small business afford not to run Linux? (iTWire)
Stan Beer of iTWire offers a counterpoint to the plethora of "Why Linux won't make it on the desktop" articles. He looks at small business owner complaints as well as his own experiences trying to get reasonable performance from Windows. "
'As a small business owner I can afford the cost of Microsoft, I just can't afford the time anymore. I've had the host running QB go down, get new hardware installed, only to not be able to 'activate' Windows. Can't run a business that way! I don't mind paying for Windows, I just can't have it prevent me from doing my business. I'm switching everything to SuSE Linux. I'm pushing all my clients that way too!'"
Posted Nov 14, 2007 13:24 UTC (Wed)
by MKesper (subscriber, #38539)
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Can a small business afford not to run Linux? (iTWire)
This point is not only true for small businesses.
If you have bigger windows sites, you will have to have dedicated license servers installed.
If these are out or by any means are not reachable from your servers, they basically will STOP
WORKING.
Isn't this a wonderful artificial single point of failure?