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A newly published IDC study reveals a significantly lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for Linux on Intel architecture over RISC/UNIX environments. The study details costs for internet/intranet/extranet and collaborative workloads including procurement, installation, administration, support, and more.
(the TCO is 45-84% lower than RISC/UNIX)
That's quite a bit, I'd say. While you're not going to get the hardcore serious ass-kicking stability from the guys who've been doing it for years (Sun, HP, AIX), as a small business, you could dump 10k nto buying a HUGE AMD-driven (shameless plug for AMD) machine that has RAID abilities, multiple procs, multiple scsi drives, backup strategies, and so on, and still come out on top. 