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Microsoft metrics vs. reality with regards to licensing

Story: Rotten EffortTotal Replies: 3
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cjcox

May 11, 2006
8:44 AM EDT 		If you have 500 employees and DON'T have 500 licenses of Office or WindowsXP (depending on how you do licensing of course) then you are automatically on the red list at Microsoft. After all... how would it be possible for you to have 500 computers that are not all running their software?

GNU/Linux (and FOSS apps) is truly a disruptive technology... :)
grouch

May 11, 2006
9:12 AM EDT 		cjcox:

Heh. I hadn't thought about how it also disrupted their easy accounting!
cjcox

May 11, 2006
7:18 PM EDT 		They probably don't even use M$ Money for all of their accounting needs :)
dcparris

May 12, 2006
6:48 AM EDT 		> They probably don't even use M$ Money for all of their accounting needs

They give every employee a copy for their desktop, but use MySQL Ledger running on a BSD box in the Linux Labs for Central control.

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