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...In fact, not doing configuration management in Linux roll-outs and, essentially, _falsifying_ the savings on Linux with it, is the absolute #1 reason why Linux projects fail. Having a background in defense, I liken this to NASA's COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) adoption in the '90s. After Sojouner (Mars Pathfinder) proved that GNU/VxWorks was a viable platform that cost 1/10th of custom software/hardware development, NASA's nexgen probes started adopting the same platforms/software as Pathfinder. The problem on these other projects is that the 90% savings was no longer applied to just...