Understanding Linux Deployment Strategies: The Business Case for Standardising on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

This IDC White Paper considers the operational experiences of customer sites that are highly standardized on RHEL, using the product on over 70% of their Linux servers, and contrasts these organizations with customer sites that have a mixed environment of commercially supported and nonpaid Linux server operating systems on their servers (between 45% and 69% of their Linux operating systems are commercially supported) and sites that are running primarily nonpaid Linux distributions (on a minimum of 70% of their Linux servers).