Still looking for a good reason to consider Linux as a viable option? Here is just another reason to give it a shot. Actually, this is a list of reasons, really.

Bear with us as we write one more story on the whole ‘Is Windows more or less expensive to run than Linux?’ debate.

This one’s quite interesting – honest. Research company Computer Economics recently did a survey of Linux-using visitors to its website, to find out what their key motivation was in adopting open source. So it was lower costs, right? Well actually, not at all. Better security? Not even at the ball game. Reduced dependence on software vendors was top by far of the list of benefits. It’s not being shackled to the likes of Microsoft that floats most people’s boat, and explains why Apache is the world’s web server platform of choice. [Read the rest]