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At the end of the day, quality matters. It isn't cheap, for instance, to run Red Hat in a production environment, given the fairly steep Red Hat support costs. But as a server in a production data center, Red Hat is a very quality solution. So for that matter is Solaris. Last time I checked, Solaris support was significantly less expensive than Red Hat (Red Hat Standard $1,499, Red Hat Premium $2,499 vs. Solaris Basic $324, Solaris Standard for x86 two sockets $720, Solaris Premium for x86 two sockets $1,080). Again though, quality matters. The debate on which OS to pick usually isn't about cost, it's about which OS is perceived to be "best" for the problem at hand. In reply to: "Study Finds "Free Open Source Software Is Costing Vendors $60 Billion""

April 21, 2008

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