[ Thanks to Nicholas
Donovan for this link. ]
“As hackers continue to take shots at Microsoft business
software, you’d think companies would analyze what it would cost to
move other operating systems, such as Unix, Solaris or Linux.“But calculating the expense of such a move costs money as well.
Cendant Hotel Group, which runs about 1,850 Windows servers,
understands this. The hospitality-industry firm periodically
calculates the cost to switch its 3,700 Linux servers to Windows.
Last time around, 18 months ago, the expected tab was $3
million…“One of the reasons the tab for running Windows is so high: the
expected cost of dealing with attacks by hackers on the Windows
operating system and related software. Those costs are thought to
be more onerous than those for the Linux operating system, Chugg
says…”