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Will You Bypass Windows Vista For Windows 7?
From http://www.maro.net/ossramblings.php?itemid=403
Posted on 2007-11-18 14:08:41 EET.
IT World is running an article that says many businesses will likely bypass Windows Vista and wait for Windows 7 before they upgrade. Personally I'm taking a different approach.I agree, Windows Vista is a bust. I've got software I wrote for Windows XP that should work perfectly fine in Vista, but ran into obscure issues with the way it handles user data for restricted accounts. I've got proprietary software in-house that will work in Vista, but there's a whole knowledgebase section on the vendor's site about how to fix problems.
For travelers who I haven't had time to train for Linux, I'm ordering laptops with Windows XP Pro.
For users who need small mobile Internet access (aka, PDA) I'm getting them the Nokia n800, and soon n810. These little gadgets are allowing those of us who only need e-mail and web on the road, plus access to our internal web based inventory system while in the warehouse to do our jobs. Oh, and it's Linux based.
For both desktops and servers, I'm slowly switching them to Linux. Well, less slowly on the server side. I have one Windows 2003 Server, still a throwback for a proprietary software we run, and I have six Ubuntu 64 bit servers. For desktops, I've already converted three of them, plus a laptop, over to Linux. Our Exchange Server and Sharepoint was replaced with eGroupware. Our Outlook clients replaced by the eGroupware web interface.
My Linux servers have been up for anywhere from 180 days to almost 700 days, which is when we relocated our datacenter to the new facility. My Windows server had to be rebooted last week, yet again. I believe my Windows server all-time record without a reboot is somewhere around 45 days.
I already replaced Windows for about 80% of our production process, simply because it couldn't handle the volume. We move around 100 GB of data across our network in any given 8 hour shift, and the Windows software with all it's RPC, Windows file shares, and other overhead just couldn't take it. As it is now, I would estimate we can produce around 8 times the volume of data on our primary Linux server than we ever could on the Windows server, even though the Windows server has much more expensive and robust hardware.
So far in server software I've saved:
You'll notice I didn't mention Microsoft Exchange or Sharepoint, because I already have a license to that which is not being used.
Yeah, I think I'll skip Windows Vista, thank you very much. And probably Windows 7 at this point. In fact the last dual-boot machine just got reformatted without Windows.
For travelers who I haven't had time to train for Linux, I'm ordering laptops with Windows XP Pro.
For users who need small mobile Internet access (aka, PDA) I'm getting them the Nokia n800, and soon n810. These little gadgets are allowing those of us who only need e-mail and web on the road, plus access to our internal web based inventory system while in the warehouse to do our jobs. Oh, and it's Linux based.
For both desktops and servers, I'm slowly switching them to Linux. Well, less slowly on the server side. I have one Windows 2003 Server, still a throwback for a proprietary software we run, and I have six Ubuntu 64 bit servers. For desktops, I've already converted three of them, plus a laptop, over to Linux. Our Exchange Server and Sharepoint was replaced with eGroupware. Our Outlook clients replaced by the eGroupware web interface.
My Linux servers have been up for anywhere from 180 days to almost 700 days, which is when we relocated our datacenter to the new facility. My Windows server had to be rebooted last week, yet again. I believe my Windows server all-time record without a reboot is somewhere around 45 days.
I already replaced Windows for about 80% of our production process, simply because it couldn't handle the volume. We move around 100 GB of data across our network in any given 8 hour shift, and the Windows software with all it's RPC, Windows file shares, and other overhead just couldn't take it. As it is now, I would estimate we can produce around 8 times the volume of data on our primary Linux server than we ever could on the Windows server, even though the Windows server has much more expensive and robust hardware.
So far in server software I've saved:
6 Windows Server 2003 64 bit + 10 CALS 6,300
Server Antivirus software for all 6 at least: 720
6 NovaBackup Server Software Licenses 900
Total: $7,920
You'll notice I didn't mention Microsoft Exchange or Sharepoint, because I already have a license to that which is not being used.
Yeah, I think I'll skip Windows Vista, thank you very much. And probably Windows 7 at this point. In fact the last dual-boot machine just got reformatted without Windows.