ZDnet UK: Leaner, Meaner Linux Makes Savings for Bergen | Linux Today

ZDnet UK: Leaner, Meaner Linux Makes Savings for Bergen

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 12, 2004

“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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Web Webster

Web Webster

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