Free Software Linux

Many of us who pay attention to the Linux community recognize that moving from a proprietary hardware and OS (such as Solaris on SPARC hardware) to an open source OS (such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server) and commodity hardware can save a lot of IT budget.  But the question is… how much will it save and how long before I recoup my migration costs? Novell recently posted a Solaris-to-Linux TCO Calculator which calculates the total cost of ownership over a 3 or 5 year period.  It gives you nice charts like these and you can customize just about every parameter.  Using mostly default selections, I threw in some basic figures (1000 users, 10 Sun servers, running a database), and the calculator showed a savings of well over $5M in direct costs over 5 years!

Seminar: Come Get Virtualized - Be The Hero. Move Up to Linux. (Stamford, CT)

Yesterday I attended the 2008 Linux on Wall Street event in New York. At the booth, we were primarily discussing SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time (SLERT) and customers who stopped by seemed very interested in learning more.  While this was my first Linux on Wall Street, and it seemed like a nice event (although the exhibit hall area was a little too warm). It was also nice to see the Novell/SUSE booth getting swamped at times with customers interested in learning more about what we’re doing, and to see cool demos of Wombat and Sun Java Real Time benefiting from SLERT performance.  I’m glad we had several Novell employees on hand for this one.

Yesterday I attended the 2008 Linux on Wall Street event in New York. At the booth, we were primarily discussing SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time (SLERT) and customers who stopped by seemed very interested in learning more.  While this was my first Linux on Wall Street, and it seemed like a nice event (although the exhibit hall area was a little too warm). It was also nice to see the Novell/SUSE booth getting swamped at times with customers interested in learning more about what we’re doing, and to see cool demos of Wombat and Sun Java Real Time benefiting from SLERT performance.  I’m glad we had several Novell employees on hand for this one.

Yesterday I attended the 2008 Linux on Wall Street event in New York. At the booth, we were primarily discussing SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time (SLERT) and customers who stopped by seemed very interested in learning more.  While this was my first Linux on Wall Street, and it seemed like a nice event (although the exhibit hall area was a little too warm). It was also nice to see the Novell/SUSE booth getting swamped at times with customers interested in learning more about what we’re doing, and to see cool demos of Wombat and Sun Java Real Time benefiting from SLERT performance.  I’m glad we had several Novell employees on hand for this one.

Sesame Workshop is also replacing its Sun* Solaris*, Microsoft* Windows* and Debian servers with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Since migrating to Linux*, the company has demonstrated dramatic improvement in its Web performance as its home page load time decreased by 130 percent. “Instead of paying for proprietary hardware with UNIX, we can now get competitive pricing from all the major hardware vendors,” Broadwater said. “Moving to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server gives us the robustness of Linux, as well as the option to run whatever open source tools best fit our business. The cost savings are incredible.” Read the full press release here.