“High costs were the “coup de grâce” that forced the
change, Harper says. “But it was more than just that. Microsoft has
so many bugs, so many security openings. And we also had issues
with memory leaks. The servers had to be rebooted. And the forced
upgrade cycle was a constant issue. With Microsoft, we had two
occasions where servers went down and we could not recover them. We
had to totally reload, and once it took five days to rebuild it. We
just said, ‘This is for the birds.'”
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