Debian GNU/Linux Migration
¿Why migrate to Linux?
Linux
- Linux is the operating system with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO).
- Its architecture allows teams to have a level of security typical of the most demanding environments, without adding additional complexity.
- Incorporates only open technologies and public standards.
Debian GNU/Linux
- Free online help with record response time.
- Contains more than 59 thousand free software packages.
- Thanks to its package system, software installation and updating is the easiest of all operating systems.
- It is a very secure system since thanks to its community of developers, errors and vulnerabilities are eliminated quickly.
GNOME
- It is the desktop chosen by leading companies such as IBM, HP, Sun and governments such as those of the USA, Spain or China.
- Requires minimal training, is easy to maintain, manage and install. Reducing the maintenance costs of your equipment.
- It is available in more than 100 languages.
- It has a fixed development cycle where a new version is released every 6 months.
- It is designed so that it can be used by anyone regardless of their technical abilities or physical circumstances.
The world is changing
- Governments such as those of Mexico City, Germany, Brazil, China, Cuba, Spain, France and Russia have begun to migrate to Linux.
- The most important research centers such as CERN or FermiLab use Linux.
- 100% of the 500 most powerful supercomputers use Linux.
- Companies such as Novel, Amazon, Google, DreamWorks, London Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange and Wikipedia use Linux.
- 96% of web servers run on Linux.
Linux TCO
- The cost of migrating to a working platform based on free software is 90% lower than migrating to a new version of a Microsoft platform.
- By migrating to Linux your company can save between 26% and 36% of expenses on its IT infrastructure.
Applications
- Finding and adapting to new applications in the migration process is easy. For almost all programs there are alternatives for Linux.
- OpenOffice.org makes the migration process from MS Office easy. Evolution offers an interface similar to MS Outlook to manage calendars, email contacts and personal information.
- Linux offers a greater variety of internet browsers such as FireFox or Opera that, unlike MS Internet Explorer, do comply with W3C standards. .