Case study: Clustering the penguins
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| When Cox was setting up the company?s server cluster, he evaluated the
| option of continuing with Microsoft?s Windows Server solution and concluded
| he would be paying 30 percent more for software licences if he took that
| path instead of using Linux, and would end up paying an extra $250,000 just
| for the right to use the software.
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| Cox is also happy with the increased reliability provided by the
| Linux cluster. "Our previous published availability levels were at
| 99.5 percent -- but from day one with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
| that extended to 99.7 percent, and today we are in a position
| where we are greatly exceeding our SLAs," says Cox.
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http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=48601
Related:
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| Microsoft only had a brief moment on the Top 500 supercomputer list before
| the machine was rebooted as a Linux cluster last fall.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=B2413430-EEAF-455C-9D85-706DC25D148D
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