A little cost analysis is in order here. Going down their list, M$ says:
Migrating Static Content from Apache to M$ IIS.
Cost: Apache: Free
IIS: 1.) Time Spent Determining what your needs are, so you know what kind
of Licensing Requirements you might have.
2.) $$$$? Your valuable time spent negotiating with M$ about how many
licenses you're going to need. OR, $$$$? How much you've paid somebody
to do that for you.
3.) Actual software itself: Windows 2000 Server Version Upgrade with 25
Client Access Licenses: $899 US + <whatever you've spent before on
previous licenses>
4.) $300-$500/hour to consult with an attorney to make sure you are going
to be in compliance with the licenses you've bought.
5.) $$$$? Your valuable time dealing with the BSA (Business Software
Alliance?), because they decided to audit your overall software
installation to make sure you're in compliance with the licenses
you've bought.
6.) Lost productivity because you're tired from this round of dealing with
costs and possible penalties from using only one of M$'s software
solutions, with worries of doing this again for at least 5 more
products: Priceless.
Unfortunately, I can't read M$ Word docs in KWord, so I don't really know
what they say there. <Darn!> Another interesting thing is that their pricing
page lists volume licenses last...perhaps to scare people up front about how
expensive it might be to use the non-volume licenses?
Russell
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 23:35, you wrote:
> Hay all you MS friends out there in Linux land.
>
> Linuxtoday has posted a web site on how to convert from Linus to Microsoft.
>
> http://als.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-09-04-014-20-PS-MS-SV
>
> This turns out to be a link to a MS site. You can tell by the URL.
>
> But! Typical MS in their attempts to screw Linux they fixed their site
> where you can not see most of it from Konqueror. Which leads to the
> question of "How do they expect people to switch if they can not see the
> site to switch?" That is assuming that someone would be craze enough to
> want to switch in the first place.
>
> Anyway I thought you people would appreciate MS efforts to shooting them
> self in the foot - again.
>
>
> Frank
>
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