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The global server market is contracting by 14 percent. Linux server sales are declining by 7 percent. Windows' market has dropped 17.8 percent.

In spite of all of this data, Red Hat's Linux server business is still swimming against the current, according to experts.

This may not be all that surprising.

In late 2008, a report found that 44 percent of enterprises surveyed were planning to increase their Red Hat investments, even as budgets fell. In a downturn, money seeks value, and Red Hat's M.O. has long been to deliver value.

What is surprising, however, is that more companies haven't sought to trim their Red Hat pricing further by going to an alternative like Oracle's Unbreakable Linux.

The strong showing of support for Red Hat from a broad sample of large, sophisticated IT vendors is highly noteworthy.

Red Hat's unique ability to leverage advancements from the open-source community creates a superior price-performance equation for customers.

In turn, this superior price-performance experience drives Red Hat's ability to become an increasingly pervasive layer of enterprise-computing infrastructure.

Moreover, even Oracle's own customers appear to vote in favor of Red Hat rather than Oracle's own Unbreakable Linux offering.

The major question Fort Lauderdale computer repair experts are asking is why aren't even Oracle customers shaving costs with Oracle's Red Hat knockoff?

The answer is simple: It's the value.

Oracle's own Linux support policy site is enough to give prospective customers pause. For one thing, Oracle offers "Basic" and "Premier" Linux support plans.

The Basic offering, which is the pricing with which Oracle has blanketing the market to demonstrate how cost-effective it is, expires after three years.

Three years into the program, in other words, customers are going to get hit with the "switch" part of Oracle's Unbreakable "bait-and-switch."

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