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02.14.06
Linux Report Challenges MS TCO Claims
 By
Jason Lee Miller
Nothing chaps Microsoft's craw more than a little competition and open source
rival Linux has been the Beast of Redmond's chief craw-chapper for some time.
After years of what Linux sympathizers have called a Microsoft F.U.D. (fear, uncertainty,
doubt) campaign against Linux' total cost of ownership (TCO), Open Source Development
Labs (OSDL) have dropped a little cost research of their own.
OSDL and member company Levanta are citing a co-sponsored study from "vendor neutral"
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) that claims Microsoft's information is
outdated and
inaccurate.
Microsoft has cited earlier studies by industry analysts on the Get
The Facts section of its website, an information page devoted purely to discrediting
its open source competition, to convey the message that Linux TCO was higher than
Windows'.
The EMA report, entittled "Get the Truth on Linux Management," maintains that
enterprises running Linux are actually spending less time and money on common
systems administration tasks than they are with the comparable Windows environments.
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"For too long, special interest groups have attacked the manageability
of Linux, and fueled the F.U.D. that Linux environments are somehow more difficult
or labor-intensive to manage than Windows environments," said Stuart Cohen,
CEO of the Open Source Development Labs.
"In fact, Linux system
management tools are in many cases outpacing Windows management tools."
The study, which polled over 200 enterprises, found that organizations managing
Linux environments found that Linux outperformed Windows in productivity, provisioning,
patch management, problem resolution, and management and support.
Findings from the report:
· Productivity - Linux tends to be more
productive, as Linux administrators tend to manage more servers than Windows administrators,
and Linux systems tend to handle greater workloads than Windows systems.
· Provisioning - 75% of administrators using sophisticated tools can provision
a system in less than 1 hour; one third can provision a system in less than 30
minutes.
· Patch management - most Linux administrators spend less than 5 minutes per server
per week on patch management. Sophisticated management tools reduce this effort
even further.
· Problem resolution - in over 60% of cases, when problems occur in Linux environments
they are diagnosed and repaired in less than 30 minutes, over 8 times faster than
industry average.
· Management and support - 88% of enterprises with Linux and Windows spend less
effort managing Linux; 97% believe it is, at worst, the same for both systems.
Respondents with sophisticated management tools all report Linux management is
the same or easier than Windows management.
'Past Microsoft-sponsored reports on Linux management are simply outdated and
one-sided,'' said Matt Mossman, CEO of Levanta. ''The EMA study has confirmed
what the Linux community has known to be true for some time now - that the F.U.D
is unfounded, and that management doesn't have to be viewed as a red flag when
considering the overall TCO of Linux.''
Recently, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates suggested that MIT's Linux-based $100 laptops
were a poor
alternative to Microsoft's cellular phone plug-ins, prompting discussion about
software politics even in the non-profit sector.
A full download of the report can be found here.
About the Author:
Jason L. Miller is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.
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