The reliability, scalability and security of open-source platforms in critical servers are largely untested, though firms like database software maker Oracle have been touting the suitability of its own versions of Linux.
Yankee said it conducted the survey with Sunbelt Software and that the research was not sponsored by any outside company. Based on a survey of 1,000 information technology administrators and corporate executives at companies around the globe...
Past restrictions on so-called dual-purpose hardware and software imports from the United States have led to local development of systems. Recently the city of Bergen, Norway, decided to replace Windows and Unix with Linux operating systems, citing...
Researchers at The Yankee Group last month published a report predicting that small businesses will drive adoption of Linux on desktops. In a survey, they found that four per cent to 10 per cent of small companies expect to have Linux PCs one year...
The same IBM Power machine now can run Linux, IBM's AIX version of Unix and the iSeries operating system, i5/OS. In August 2003, well after HP announced it would maintain OpenVMS after the Compaq merger, a survey by an HP user group called...
In terms of security, Yankee Group's survey showed a sharp rise in companies' assessment of Microsoft's security level, bringing it closer to perceived security level of Linux. Most US businesses say there is very little difference between the cost...
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