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Microsoft Windows â Disaster Movie At Eleven!
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| And it actually gets worse. I assumed that you
| could get by with the cheapest possible
| servers, and with one hundred users, that
| would be pretty unlikely. The hardware costs
| for those three Windows servers probably
| should be about $3000.00 per server higher,
| and that assumes that you can get by with only
| three servers â depending upon your operation
| you might need two or three times as many, and
| additional Backup Power Supplies. The hardware
| cost for the single Linux server should
| probably be about $10,000.00 which is still
| far less expensive.
|
| The point of course is that spending money on
| a Windows solution is an inefficient use of
| funds. Do you want to be the person reporting
| to your board of directors that youâve wasted
| that much money?
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http://madhatter.ca/2010/04/22/microsoft-windows-disaster-movie-at-eleven/
Cray Releases Highly Scalable, More Inclusive Super-Linux
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| We'd all love to have a supercomputer, but
| sadly, most of us will never have the chance
| to put that much umph in our computing. If you
| happen to be in the market for a sweet little
| Linux box with a half-million cores or so,
| though, Cray may have just what you're looking
| for.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/cray-releases-highly-scalable-more-inclusive-super-linux
Recent:
Open Source Saves the Day (and Lots of Dosh)
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| It seems every day we hear about hideous cost
| overruns on public sector projects in the UK.
| What makes it even more frustrating is that
| open source, a real no-brainer for many
| applications, is rarely given the chance to
| prove itself here. Which means, of course,
| that there are no case studies to refer to, so
| no one gives open source a chance etc. etc.
|
| Against that background, a new paper by Darrel
| Ince, Professor of Computing at the Open
| University, which rejoices in the deceptively-
| bland title of âThe Re-development of a
| Problem Systemâ, is pretty exciting stuff
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2843
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