Electronics Weekly: Fault-Tolerant Linux Can Compete with Windows

“If you ask any IT manager if they would want an operating
system that was ‘guaranteed’ to be available and supporting
applications running continuously twenty four hours a day, 365 days
a year, then the answer would probably be very simple. However, if
you want to measure how much this level of availability is worth to
the organisation, then you’ll probably get a very different
response.

“Balancing the level of costs involved in supporting a
continuously available application against how much any incident of
downtime might cost the organisation remains a real concern…”

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