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    What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?

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    • IRJI
      IRJ
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      The last two places I worked were unfortunately about 90% MS.

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        Alex Sage @IRJ
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        @IRJ said in What percentage of servers in your organization are Microsoft?:

        The last two places I worked were unfortunately about 90% MS.

        That would be about right for us too.

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        • RojoLocoR
          RojoLoco
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          100% MS here... our products are built with .NET / IIS / Visual Studio with no plans of changing anytime soon. C-levels have looked into porting over to Linux, but besides being cost prohibitive, there is literally zero demand from our existing or potential customers.

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          • NerdyDadN
            NerdyDad
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            Same here. About 90-95% MS.

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            • DashrenderD
              Dashrender
              last edited by Dashrender

              I'm down to three physical servers
              7/10 are windows.

              yep, mostly Windows.

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              • Minion QueenM
                Minion Queen
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                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.

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                • NerdyDadN
                  NerdyDad @Dashrender
                  last edited by

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

                  VM1 - Windows 2012 R2 AD/file/print

                  Just 1 AD server?

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender @NerdyDad
                    last edited by Dashrender

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

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

                    VM1 - Windows 2012 R2 AD/file/print

                    Just 1 AD server?

                    yep.. just one.

                    Licensing wise, it doesn't make sense to buy Windows for the other VM host to have a Windows AD box on it. Besides, if the one box goes down, the bulk of why I need AD goes down with it - the files.

                    DNS is running on another VM, so internet will stay working.

                    I could probably move a single license to the other host and setup a DC, but storage is at a premium on that server...... so.....

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                    • KellyK
                      Kelly
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                      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
                          last edited by

                          @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
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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

                              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
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                                  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
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                                        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
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                                          @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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