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Linux firms rubbish Microsoft's customer win

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ZDnet UK; By Ingrid Marson 		Mail this story
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Microsoft is delighted that the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is swapping Linux for Windows - but the open source community is highly unimpressed.

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PaulFerris ·
"We didn't do, say, a three month evaluation of Linux," said Carlson. "We decided that we should evaluate the Microsoft offerings first. Once we realised what a powerful set of tools they were, it became self-evident this was the right way to go down."

Translation: "It was a no-brainer. We decided not to use our brains for this decision because that just made sense."

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