> A big mistake to goto Linux
> 
> - Capital cost saving is great and operation cost is great too
> - Good finger pointing exercise with your hardware vendors and Linux service 
> providers
> - Poor hardware management / hot plug support / stability
> - Free endless bug finding exercise
> - Good for a small environment only
> 
> If I had a choice, I would go Solaris / SPARC.

Well,well,well
it is not that bad.
If you have stability issues you have other problems than Linux...
Please remember that RedHat does not equal Linux ;-)

But in a big enterprise I would probably also go for Solaris
as the first alternative, then Linux and as a last resort Windows.

Best
Dag

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