Windows Versus Open Source: The Battle for Operating Your Company's Computers is Heating Up
IT departments can get pretty catty. There's plenty of behind- the-scenes sarcasm about inexperienced users (such as digs about PBCAK errors - short for "problem between chair and keyboard"), but that pales in comparison to the vitriol they direct at each other in the Windows/open-source debate.
Here's the issue: Computers run on two diametrically opposed types of operating systems, and your company could save a lot of money depending on which one you use.
On one side are the proprietary operating systems - of which Microsoft Windows is far and away the front runner - and on the other side are free, open-source systems, the most popular of which is Linux.
Each operating system also comes with its suite of software applications. Commercial products such as Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer run on Windows and compete against open-source applications like Firefox and OpenOffice.org.
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