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Reduce Costs and Improve Business Performance with Linux
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By: Robert Diaz, Jr
CEO and President of RDA Enterprises, Inc.
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Linux is a proven, reliable, secure operating system that can lower total cost of ownership and provide the flexibility and competitive edge that will take your business to the next level of success.
Many business owners and IT managers of growing businesses prefer Linux over competitive operating systems. The major factors leading businesses to move to Linux are its low cost, security, reliability, openness, and freedom to avoid single-vendor environments.
In fact, businesses such as Amazon.com and Google rave about operational costs saved and efficiencies found from implementing Linux on their servers. These commercial examples, combined with the experiences of developers and IT managers, have led to widespread installations of Linux servers within small and medium-sized businesses. An IDC 2007 report says that Linux holds 12.7 percent of the overall server market.
With Linux in the business environment, owners and IT managers can concentrate on improving the business rather than spending time updating software and adding numerous, ongoing security patches.
Nine Reasons Why Growing Businesses are Choosing Linux
Linux is a computer operating system, like Microsoft Windows® or the Apple Mac OS. Because of the robust Linux programmer community, several “flavors” of Linux (known as “distributions”) are available, and each is specialized in a slightly different way. This robust operating system is being widely adopted by IT professionals in growing businesses because of its high quality, reliability, and price.
Here are nine reasons why many growing businesses are leaving a Microsoft environment and moving to Linux.
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