Linked by Alejandro Tamayo Castillo on Wed 20th Oct 2004 18:48 UTC
In this article I will analyze the features and costs to select which is the best operating system for servers as well as the services that each one of them brings to us.
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I'm gonna have to chime in too. That's got to be one of the least professional articles I've seen - sorry to the author, but it's the truth. There's nothing but opinion backing up all of those numbers.
To take a few examples:
System Maintenance. 5 to Windows? You LIKE having to reboot the entire server to install updates, and having to do it constantly?
And 3 to Windows for security makes me question what exactly would get 2, 1 or 0? It's the most exploited OS available - therefore it should be at the bottom of the scale. Of course there are official sites saying how secure it is - that's called advertising! Those of us not employed by MS are meant to be able to see through such things.
Amount of services and commercial applications: Not generally that crucial a factor on a server - you generally have everything you need unless you're after something pretty esoteric.
Anyway that's enough.... I suppose I sound pretty irritated. Mostly your article sounded strongly Microsoft-biased - it seems to have played very much to their strengths (Active Directory etc) and glossed over the weaknesses (security & patches).