If the you are given to choose between Linux and Windows server than which one is better? Open source Linux or the Microsoft Window Server? This Linux operating system is one of the free open source where you do not have to pay for it but where as there you have to pay licensing fees for any version of Microsoft, so if you see from the point of cost Linux is better and the Linux use to perform 25% more faster and better than the Microsoft Window Server. In Linux you have to make kernel modifications for the flexibility which help you to work with the efficiently. There are lots of the benefits of this Linux open source but there are also many backside of it too. Yes it is true that you can do modification of kernel but here you need higher level of expertise to keep productions environment going.
There are variation of the Linux like Debian or SuSE which required the special expertise. In front of the Linux the Window does not seems higher level operating system but if you see according to the use than this Microsoft Window is much easier to work with. In the Windows box you can sets access and control without the requirement of the software. Here in both Window and Linux the patching is inevitable but it is much easier to patch the window. This Microsoft is only the source which issue the window patches. But in the Linux you need to decide whether to go to open source entity for patches. For the instances one for OpenSSH or wait till the commercial Linux providers like as the Red Hat provide the patch.
This Microsoft use to provide the monolithic single points of contacts for the business customer but incase of the Linux you need to know where to got and for what which use to make more complicated for the users. Different experts said that there is not such things as the TechNet for the Linux. The Linux users required to be enthusiastic participants in sometime clannish open sources communities for getting the optimum results.
So these are the arguments indicated why the Window Server continue to have the huge appeal in enterprise settings, though the some vertical industries like financial firm have become the big time Linux user. In the internet the open sources applications like Linux are more popular and this Linux has become some kind of industrial technology for the vendor which use this in the wide ranges of products and the services. For example the Amazon EC2 computing environment data center rely on the Xen based Linux server.