LinuxWorld: Savings, Stability Make Strong Business Case

"When we moved to Linux, we found that using the low-cost x86 hardware platform made our system run three times faster and was 90 percent cheaper than the mainframe using Unix had been," Wiseman said. "It also has the highest uptime of any system we have had: We have not had a single second of outage, either scheduled or unscheduled, since June 2004."