The Military does use Linux (Score 1)

I am a system administrator working for the U.S federal government. At my site 10% of the servers I administer are Red Hat and 7% are Unix Which in comparison to all of the computers in my unit is less than 1% pathetic I know. Honestly the windows servers running server 2003 do not need to be booted any more often than the amy other server running a diffrent OS I administer. The military does contract a large portion of it computing to out side agencies and they have to take the lowest bid with comparable fnctionality. The majority of contractors feel more comfortable working with window. The majority of application the military use are custom built and from what I have seen the quality of the windows based applications are much higher than those of other operating systems, Which is usually not the case for the rest of the world. As an administrator I know the people with the money are more likely to select a product that has a nice looking user interface and is easy to use. They could care less how ofter they have to reboot the system or if you could do more in fact it makes it that much essayer for them. Something goes wrong they simply reboot and go get some coffee and come back, and if there problem is not fixed they go find a admin (which is so annoying and why I work behind a cypher lock) bottom line Windows is more Idiot proof of as my coworkers like to say Army Proof.