Submission + - Microsoft cheaper for web serving?
Tinman_au writes: Bink.nu has an article titled "Leading Belgian Hosting Provider Realizes Lower TCO on Windows than Linux" that asks the following:
"Many total cost of ownership (TCO) studies have reaffirmed that TCO of a large enterprise infrastructure based on Microsoft® Windows ServerTM 2003 is lower than one based on Linux. But what about TCO in a Web hosting environment?"
In the table of figures, the cost area breakout lists labour for Fedora at 77.88% with Windows .NET with SQL Server 2005 as only 53.15%. Admittedly, the report was done by Microsoft itself, so I guess it couldn't exactly be considered impartial, but not being a web admin I found myself wondering, is Windows really that much easier to look after in a web server environment, or has Microsoft fudged some numbers?
"Many total cost of ownership (TCO) studies have reaffirmed that TCO of a large enterprise infrastructure based on Microsoft® Windows ServerTM 2003 is lower than one based on Linux. But what about TCO in a Web hosting environment?"
In the table of figures, the cost area breakout lists labour for Fedora at 77.88% with Windows
