Linked by Adam S on Mon 22nd Sep 2003 18:28 UTC, submitted by Robert Renling
"Red Hat and Fedora Linux are pleased to announce an alignment of their mutually complementary core proficiencies leveraging them synergistically in the creation of the Fedora Project, a paradigm shift for Linux technology development and rolling early deployment models." Read more at Fedora Linux's site.
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"Cost of Red Hat Server as a web server = $2000 / year
Cost of Windows Server as a web server = $800 for life"
Cost of 10 MCSEs to admin your 50 Windows servers: $500k
Cost of 2 Unix admins to admin your 50 RedHat servers: $140k
Cost of 1000mins downtime with Windows: $100k
Cost of 100mins downtime with RedHat: $10k
There's also some other issues. Trust me, it's not $800 vs. $2000 like you'd want us to believe. You're also forgetting that MS Licensing v 6.0 forces you into a pseudo-subscription program anyways. All MS needs to do is start coming out with yearly OS updates, and you'll be paying out the nose whether you like it or not.
Debian? Be real. If something goes wrong with Debian, YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN. You can't blame the vendor, as there _is_ no real vendor. Do you want to put your company's well-being and/or job in someone else's hands? I think not.
-Erwos