14 DAY TRIAL // The never-ending battle between Windows and Linux continues, this time with a statement made by Icewarp, a company selling a Linux-based messaging and collaboration server similar to Microsoft Exchange and Sharepoint.
While many businesses are trying to stay with Windows because of the familiar Windows environments, others prefer to switch to Linux for reduced costs, Chris Knott, director of technology at Icewarp, told The Inquirer.
"What it depends on is the customer, they have to be open to change. Some customers are only looking to replace their Exchange server but keep everything Microsoft,” he said.
"Once they see there is another world out there outside of Microsoft, they see that and a lot of companies are driven towards Linux because there is a certain stability, more security, faster file systems and some of these other options and a lot of companies contact us and they want to move there but they don't have really a Linux plan."
Some companies, on the other hand, choose to rely on Windows because of the reduced costs.
Australian bank MEB recently announced that it decided to skip Linux and stick to Microsoft’s operating system because an open-source platform would be more expensive due to the high costs of training and tech support.