Not Hard, Impossible
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| moopst May 12, 2006 10:43 PM EDT |
"It's hard to beat open source on initial cost of procurement; it is not hard to beat open source on total cost of ownership."
----- For Microsoft beating Linux on TCO won't be hard, it will be impossible. |
| helios May 13, 2006 2:08 PM EDT |
and of course, the "response team" that prepares the statements for Gates Et Al conveniently forget to mention the lock-in costs of upgrades and support services. I have yet to read a "TCO" report by MS or their paid independent sources that takes this into consideration. For those businesses who are considering the cost of upgrade to Vista, not only will the software costs be ever-present...the hardware upgrades are gonna be a killer. These things are conspicuiously missing from the TCO reports I have read. Again, MS assumes their customer base is either stupid or blindly faithful. Those who at one time DID exhibit said traits, are quickly learning a lesson. Pain is a good teacher. |
| tuxchick2 May 13, 2006 2:18 PM EDT |
To be honest, they should also factor in the cost of purchasing all manner of anti-virus, firewall, anti-malware, and third-party system maintenance programs. All of these carry the same per-client/per-user/per-concurrent user/per-user-thinking-about-it licensing silliness. And also the true costs of infection, including collateral damage. Including all the wasted bandwidth and extra securitymthat other people have to pay for, and abuse desks, etc etc etc ad nauseum The real summary is "you can't afford Windows unless you're a billionaire like billg" |
| jimf May 13, 2006 2:50 PM EDT |
NO ONE is "a billionaire like billg"... For a lot of reasons, none of them good. |
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