The phrase "alternative to operating" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing different methods or options that can replace or serve as substitutes for operating something, such as machinery or systems.
Example: "The company is exploring an alternative to operating the old machinery, which is becoming increasingly costly to maintain."
Alternatives: "substitute for operating" or "replacement for operating".
Bedside fasciotomy was selected as an alternative to operating-room fasciotomy.
Educational, medicolegal, and financial constraints have pushed surgical residency programs to find alternative methods to operating room teaching for surgical skills training.
Its biggest commitment has been to Linux, an open source operating system that is an alternative to the operating systems of two of I.B.M.'s leading rivals, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems.
The alternative to not operating is worse, agrees Ashish Desai, consultant paediatric surgeon and co-founder of the adolescent bariatric surgery service at King's College hospital.
PC manufacturers (often referred to as Original Equipment Manufacturers, or "OEM's") have no commercially reasonable alternative to Microsoft operating systems for the PC's that they distribute.
The NGO had no alternative but to operate in this legal no man's land.
They recently began sending out invites to Fluent, a site that promises an alternative interface to operate a Gmail account.
An alternative method to operate probe in non-contact mode is SNDM readout that possesses from a fact that the reversal of the ferroelectric polarization can slightly change the storage medium's capacitance due to the non-linearity in the permittivity tensor [79].
The outbreak detection system operates on the basis of report dates (current and historical); the alternative is to operate on the basis of specimen dates, which requires explicit modeling of the delay distribution.
The Upper Big Branch coal mine explosion in West Virginia, the Deepwater Horizon blowout and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the unfolding nuclear crisis in Japan have dramatized the dangers of conventional power generation at a time when the world has no workable alternatives able to operate at sufficient scale.
The computer giant is announcing new customers using the Linux operating system, a cheaper alternative to traditional operating systems like UNIX and Microsoft's Windows.
