Financial benefits of migrating from Windows to Linux
Linux servers offer long term benefits which result in positive return on investment (ROI) within one year of implementation. There is general growth in the utility of the Linux servers as there is a very short time-to-return on project investments.
Below are the kinds of return on investment firms are getting from Linux servers:
- Hardware, Layered and application software – Organisations which use a Linux server report hardware purchase savings of 50-90 percent.
- Operating system licensing and support - Linux server efficiency, flexibility, and manageability contributes substantially to the cost savings and new opportunity enablement.
- Personnel/human resources (HR) – Organisations are finding substantial ROI contributions through the personnel elements of their Linux servers. Linux systems produce increased server manageability over Windows. Training costs associated with deploying Linux servers are negligible.
- Facilities - Contribution to ROI is made on the savings, not revenue side of the equation, in some instances Linux servers makes no direct contribution to the population's bottom-line.
- Incremental revenues - If Linux investments are part of new business initiatives to help drive new businesses or increase revenues then the ROI is likely to be very high. The economics of large-scale Linux deployments are lowering both the threshold and risks associated with Linux implementation.
Linux server use encourages further adoption of a variety of strong Open Source software packages, further lowering costs and encouraging new projects that combine these tools and platforms into application systems.
With developer and common skill sets across Linux platforms, firms will lower costs and improve time-to-market by leveraging Linux server expertise.
