Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (180 mails)

["Richard Brown" <rdb@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kim,


Heres some statistics, ripped from www.suse.com


In a recent survey conducted by the Information Technology Intelligence
Corporation, respondents reported SUSE Linux Enterprise Server exhibited
on average 17.4 minutes of unplanned downtime per server per year.
Compare this with 35.4 minutes for Oracle Solaris, 67.2 minutes for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux and 145.2 minutes for Windows Server 2008.
The same study found that the average time to patch a server (planned
downtime) with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server was 15 minutes, versus 31
minutes for Solaris, 27 minutes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 32
minutes for Windows Server 2008. By minimizing both planned and
unplanned downtime with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, your business
gains more access to the applications, systems and data it depends on to
generate revenues and stay competitive.
Hope this helps
Richard
> > > Pascal Bleser  10/31/11 11:26 AM >>>
On 2011-10-30 22:44:10 (+0100), Kim Leyendecker  wrote:
[...]
> So, the thought of a crash statistic (which OS crashes more?) about
> Linux vs. Windows came to my mind.
>
> Does we (or others) have such a statistic? I would love comparing
> both OS´s in different areas, foremost stability.

Such numbers are not available and, even then, how would those
be collected in the first place ?
* what's a crash? an application? the kernel?
* using a beta or a stable? a package from the distro or an
  addon repo?

And.. you will *never* get such numbers for Windows or Microsoft
applications, that's for sure :)

Actually, no one wants to collect and publish such numbers in
the first place.

cheers
-- 
  -o) Pascal Bleser
  /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green
 _\_v http://fosdem.org   -- we haz conf


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