Over the past decade, Red Hat has helped tens of thousands of customers with critical endeavors around infrastructure modernization. Specifically, this has meant migrating from proprietary, closed infrastructure based on RISC/UNIX to industry standard open systems based on the x86 architecture. As Gartner notes in their April 2012 report “While steady, the [Unix to Linux] migrations have been phased by degree of complexity, total cost of ownership (TCO) savings, modernization priority and degree of internal skills (or transfer of UNIX to Linux skills).”
Factors that have driven the acceleration of UNIX to Linux migration over the past few years include…
