Microsoft has seen a 300 per cent increase in the last three months in the number of websites hosted on its recently launched Windows Server 2003 software - with a considerable amount of the new business representing migrations from Linux...
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.
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...
In a survey, they found that four per cent to 10 per cent of small companies expect to have Linux PCs one year from now. The engineers are testing and measuring how Windows, Linux and Mac OS X stack up on security, reliability and total cost of...
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...
Microsoft had no immediate comment on the survey. 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.