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Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Executive Buyer's Guide

Overview The objective of this paper is to provide IT executives with a basic value analysis model to determine the business and economic opportunity associated with a migration from proprietary UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. To understand the benefits and costs of a migration to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux solution, it's important to consider the value of, and relationship among, open source, Linux and Red Hat. This paper looks at the intrinsic value of each, and concludes with a cost/benefit analysis of a typical UNIX-to-Red Hat Enterprise Linux migration.

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Publisher	Red Hat	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	January 2005	Downloads	3
Format	White Papers
Topics	Linux - Open Source, Upgrades and Migration, UNIX

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