ADVISORY/ 'Linux Vs. Unix: an International Data Corporation Study Comparing Total Cost of Ownership'; Red Hat/IDC Webcast Unveils Results of Three-month Study.Business/Technology Editors ADVISORY...for Jan. 23 (Wed.) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
WHAT: IDC Research reveals a 45-80 percent lower total cost of
ownership (TCO) for Linux on the Intel architecture over
RISC/Unix environments.
WHEN: 10:00-11:00 a.m. EST, Wednesday, January 23, 2002
WHO: Al Gillen, International Data Corporation (IDC) Research
Director, System Software; and Michael Tiemann, Red Hat Chief
Technology Officer
The study and the resulting white paper, "The Role of Linux Linux Nonproprietary operating system (OS) for digital computers. In 1991 Linus Torvalds of Finland began asking for volunteer programmers over the Internet to collaborate on the development of a UNIX-like OS for personal computers; the “1. in Reducing the Cost of Enterprise Computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. ," by IDC Analysts Dan Kusnetzky, Al Gillen and Scott McLarnon, was sponsored by Red Hat. Data for the study was collected through 142 telephone interviews during June-September 2001, with companies of 100 employees or more deploying Linux on the Intel platform and Unix on RISC-based systems A computer system that uses a RISC CPU such as a SPARC, PowerPC or MIPS chip. See RISC. . According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the study, Linux has emerged as a viable and cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. alternative to Unix for enterprise computing on Internet/intranet/extranet and collaberative workloads. "Associated costs with Linux are not only dramatically lower for the hardware and software, as you might expect, but also comparable or lower for staffing--which you might not expect," concludes the study. "With staffing typically the largest component of overall IT solution costs, this finding has important implications for IT planning. In summary, Linux provides a lower-cost platform for these workloads, especially in the first year of deployment. For enterprises with the right mix of requirements and skill, Linux offers tremendous potential to lower costs associated with supporting application workloads." To participate in the Webcast and to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. the IDC white paper, please visit www.redhat.com. About Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat is the world's premier open source and Linux provider. Red Hat is headquartered in Research Triangle Park Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C. and has offices worldwide. Please visit Red Hat on the Web at www.redhat.com. For investor inquiries, contact Gabriel Szulik at Red Hat, (919) 547-0012 |
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