Linux vs Windows - Conquering a Windows Based World

One of the largest food retailers in Scandinavia has made the switch and is standardizing its IT infrastructure on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.  A quote from Rolf Berge the production manger at Axfood.

 “Axfood has very high demands on availability and performance. We chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux because it is a cost-efficient and safe platform for us to grow on.” 

The one word that caught my attention from the quote was “safe” .  It is different than the standard reasons of “cost-efficient”, “performance”, and “availability”.  We’re all used to hearing those.  “Safe” is how I feel when applications are running on Linux, “Safe” is how I feel about performance and uptime,   “Safe” is how I feel that an automatic update will not crash the machine.