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    What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?

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    • KellyK
      Kelly
      last edited by

      Probably 5-10% are Windows.

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      • DashrenderD
        Dashrender @Minion Queen
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        @Minion-Queen said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

        Since we have SAM and he is anti windows, I will list our clients stuff

        Client 1: 99% Windows
        Client 2: 90% Windows
        Client 3: 100% Windows
        Client 4: 99% Windows
        Client 5: 90% Windows

        In most cases the only server that's not windows is a PBX server.

        either your precentages are off, or your clients have a huge number of servers 😛

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        • NerdyDadN
          NerdyDad @Dashrender
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          @Dashrender said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

          @Minion-Queen said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

          Since we have SAM and he is anti windows, I will list our clients stuff

          Client 1: 99% Windows
          Client 2: 90% Windows
          Client 3: 100% Windows
          Client 4: 99% Windows
          Client 5: 90% Windows

          In most cases the only server that's not windows is a PBX server.

          either your precentages are off, or your clients have a huge number of servers 😛

          So clients 1 & 4 have 100 servers?

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          • art_of_shredA
            art_of_shred @Dashrender
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            @Dashrender said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

            @Minion-Queen said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

            Since we have SAM and he is anti windows, I will list our clients stuff

            Client 1: 99% Windows
            Client 2: 90% Windows
            Client 3: 100% Windows
            Client 4: 99% Windows
            Client 5: 90% Windows

            In most cases the only server that's not windows is a PBX server.

            either your precentages are off, or your clients have a huge number of servers 😛

            Poor math skills...
            She is counting VM's and not physical boxes alone, and her percentages are not accurate. On average, most of those clients have 1 or 2 Linux VM's and every other thing (server or workstation) in their environment is Windows. It's a very low percentage of Linux anything that we ever deal with.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @Minion Queen
              last edited by

              @Minion-Queen said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

              Since we have SAM and he is anti windows, I will list our clients stuff

              SAM has nothing against MS, just pro-business and if the Windows tax isn't justified, we don't use it. It's not at all related to being anti-Microsoft.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
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                We are down to one legacy Windows app server. All Linux beyond that. That one is slated to be moved, but hasn't been a priority in quite some time. It is a .NET app that has to be ported to .NET on Linux.

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                • momurdaM
                  momurda
                  last edited by

                  50% MS here, almost exactly. Rest are various linux servers.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @Minion Queen
                    last edited by

                    @Minion-Queen said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

                    Since we have SAM and he is anti windows, I will list our clients stuff

                    Client 1: 99% Windows
                    Client 2: 90% Windows
                    Client 3: 100% Windows
                    Client 4: 99% Windows
                    Client 5: 90% Windows

                    In most cases the only server that's not windows is a PBX server.

                    Funny, you assign me to customers that are 50% Windows. Why aren't those in the list? And it's not their PBXs on something other than Windows. I think you are skipping loads of the workloads just because they don't generate many outages.

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                    • brianlittlejohnB
                      brianlittlejohn
                      last edited by brianlittlejohn

                      Just decommissioned 3 exchange servers today... 7 out of 11 are windows servers currently, but the number of linux servers is growing here.

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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender
                        last edited by

                        One thing a question like this doesn't really account for - is OS sprawl. i.e. one install per function. Of course there are huge advantages to this (i.e. you need to update/reboot the Unifi server, nothing else is affected), it quickly grows the number on 'nix boxes compared to Windows boxes because of the a fore mentioned Windows Tax.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @brianlittlejohn
                          last edited by

                          @brianlittlejohn said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

                          Just decommissioned 3 exchange servers today... 7 out of 11 are windows servers currently, but the number of linux servers is growing here.

                          I deal with a lot of FreeBSD servers, too, it seems.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                            last edited by

                            @Dashrender said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

                            One thing a question like this doesn't really account for - is OS sprawl. i.e. one install per function. Of course there are huge advantages to this (i.e. you need to update/reboot the Unifi server, nothing else is affected), it quickly grows the number on 'nix boxes compared to Windows boxes because of the a fore mentioned Windows Tax.

                            Yeah, Linux and BSD naturally grow in the hosted world by leaps and bounds because of licensing and cloud hosting costs.

                            http://www.smbitjournal.com/2010/05/linux-virtualization-deployment-advantage/

                            Seven years old now!

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                            • Minion QueenM
                              Minion Queen
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                              We have one client that has FreeBSD, and I have no idea what else there is in their environment since this is the only thing we have physically worked on for them. You do get brought in to work on a small project here and there for liniux stuff but again we know the one thing in their environment for the project and not the full thing. So I can't speak to what their environments are since we have no idea.

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                              • travisdh1T
                                travisdh1
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                                Zero. All Linux of some sort.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @travisdh1
                                  last edited by

                                  @travisdh1 said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

                                  Zero. All Linux of some sort.

                                  Can't wait till we are there. Just have that one pesky old server to sort out.

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                                  • JaredBuschJ
                                    JaredBusch
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                                    Does running Hyper-V server count? I mean it is Microsoft.

                                    Client A:

                                    • Hyper Server 2012 R2 x 2
                                    • Server 2012 R2 Standard VM x2
                                    • CentOS 7 VM x3

                                    So either 57.14% (4 of 7) or 40.0% (2/5) depending on if the Hypervisor counts.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
                                      last edited by

                                      @JaredBusch said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

                                      Does running Hyper-V server count? I mean it is Microsoft.

                                      Client A:

                                      • Hyper Server 2012 R2 x 2
                                      • Server 2012 R2 Standard VM x2
                                      • CentOS 7 VM x3

                                      So either 57.14% (4 of 7) or 40.0% (2/5) depending on if the Hypervisor counts.

                                      I don't think that the hypervisor counts, or else VMware would count against the MS count, too.

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                                      • IRJI
                                        IRJ @scottalanmiller
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                                        @scottalanmiller said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

                                        @JaredBusch said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

                                        Does running Hyper-V server count? I mean it is Microsoft.

                                        Client A:

                                        • Hyper Server 2012 R2 x 2
                                        • Server 2012 R2 Standard VM x2
                                        • CentOS 7 VM x3

                                        So either 57.14% (4 of 7) or 40.0% (2/5) depending on if the Hypervisor counts.

                                        I don't think that the hypervisor counts, or else VMware would count against the MS count, too.

                                        You still have to patch it and do more management then you would with VMware

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                                        • ObsolesceO
                                          Obsolesce
                                          last edited by Obsolesce

                                          Linux = 28.75%
                                          Windows = 71.25%

                                          Physical Linux: 13
                                          Physical Windows: 14

                                          Virtual Linux: 10
                                          Virtual Windows: 43 (because of DataCenter licensing)

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                                          • DustinB3403D
                                            DustinB3403 @Obsolesce
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                                            @Tim_G Why is any of it physical?

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