ZDnet UK: Leaner, Meaner Linux Makes Savings for Bergen

"The City of Bergen is now midway through its migration to Linux on the server, and is looking forward to making very significant savings through moving away from Windows.

"Ole-Bjørn Tuftedal, the city's chief technology officer, said on Thursday that Bergen has evaluated the cost of running Windows or Linux on IBM Blade servers and found that Linux runs more efficiently. As a result, fewer Blade servers are needed to provide services to the same number of users..."

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