Windows 2003 Server is a more reliable server operating system than Linux, a research firm said Monday. According to the Yankee Group's annual server reliability survey, only Unix operating systems such as HP-UX and Sun Solaris 10 beat Windows on uptime. Windows 2003 Server, in fact, led the popular Red Hat Enterprise Linux with nearly 20 percent more annual uptime. The Yankee Group made a point of stressing that the survey was not sponsored or supported by any server OS maker.
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Member since:2006-01-19
I have been working with an IRIX workstation for 2 years, after that with a HPUX workstation for 3 years, and am now on a Linux PC for 1 year.
Please see my figuers not as a statistic, but what I can remember. Also note, that these Machines have been used for desktop (CAE) work, not as servers. All machines had to work with similar software and had to do similar tasks.
My reeboots look like this:
- IRIX had to reboot every 3 months or so
- HPUX had to reboot every 3 weeks or so
- Linux has to reboot every 6 weeks or so
I did never have to reboot any of those machines due to a complete system crash, most reboots happend because the machine became quirky somehow.
The Administrators are old UNIX experienced guys for all machines.
On the completely opposite end of the scale is the Windows XP reliability. We are currently in the move towards Windows, and all of my colleages are already using Windows. They have to reboot their machines every 3 days or so. An uptime of more than a week is very seldom. Every second reboot is due to complete system lockup (no software shutdown possible).
The Windows PCs are managed by Windows Admins.
There is already some talk going on, if we should go back to Linux, even if it looks more expensive (we use terminal servers for the MS Office tasks), if the interrupted work is not counted (and it is not easy to count it).
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2005-08-06
I think I will stick with Linux/Unix thank you.
What is interesting here is that according to Yankee group there is a significant difference in Linux and Unix, hence you should not mention them in the way you do.
On the other hand, I think this is hardly a shock to anyone that Unix beats Linux hands down.