Good question!
- Foundation: It's important in building a house and it's important when designing a business network infrastructure. If you buy into a proprietary product then you buy into vendor lock-in - that can be a double-edged sword. Whereas, if you buy into Linux you buy into freedom.
- Initial cost for the server software is dramtically different - since Linux is free:
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Number of clients able to connect (users/devices)
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You get 5 with initial purchase. Pay per user/device after that.
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Limited only by hardware (effectively unlimited)
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- Linux is very stable.
- A lot more options and additional features are available with Linux at the free price-tag and THIS IS A BIGGY. Things like virtualisation out-of-the-box, databases, iSCSI (remote disk mirroring), web servers, email servers, media services (streaming, internet radio), PABX software, etc. And with numerous online software repositories the list of applications is almost endless.
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GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix (a recursive acronym). Read more at the official website here.
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