| Why
should my business care about Linux?
Cost
Well, you can't get much cheaper than free. Linux itself and
most major applications running on Linux cost nothing. That
is part of the conditions of its distribution.
Stability
and Security
New security holes are being found in Microsoft® operating
systems every day. It is trivial to crash any Microsoft®
Windows® machine connected to the Internet -- even from
across the planet due to security holes. This obviously does
little to improve reliability.
The
nature of Linux and other Open Source Software is that bugs
are (a) found faster and (b) fixed faster than with closed-source
code. This is because of the "many eyes" phenomenon
of Open Source. Since there are millions of tech-savvy people
using the program, who all have access to the source code,
then the chances of finding the cause of the problem, fixing
it, and telling everyone about it, is very high.
What
Microsoft® would have you believe is that because there
are many reported bugs for Linux, then it must be unstable.
They neglect to mention that Microsoft® tends to treat
bugs like state secrets -- they're always denied to exist.
Microsoft® has trained people to expect their computers
to crash regularly and to expect that if they have a problem,
then rebooting the computer will fix it -- or completely reinstalling
the application -- or even worse, formatting the computer,
reinstalling Microsoft® Windows® and the applications.
Businesses should not accept anything less but rock solid
stability and reliability out of their operating systems.
Linux can help businesses achieve that. |
