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Costs of Acquisition and Support - A Comparison

Overview Microsoft Corporation commissioned Ideas International (IDEAS) to produce a white paper comparing the software procurement charges and ongoing support costs of Microsoft Windows Server 2003 against Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 in a large server population (i.e., enterprise) setting. For this comparison, IDEAS modeled a hypothetical enterprise housing 500 servers with mixed support requirements. IDEAS examined how the enterprise's operating system choice - either Windows Server 2003 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux - would affect its bottom line. This paper reports on the outcomes of the analysis and provides the reader with insight into the key issues of differentiation between the Microsoft and Red Hat offerings.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Ideas International	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	Windows NT - 2000 - 2003, Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., Linux Server OS

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