> OMG,
> Every story/article/editorial I read about businesses doing
> large-scale Linux conversions lately has to mention that inane total
> cost of ownership (TCO) study that MS paid IDC to do last December!
> ("Somecorp, Inc., IT Director Joe Sillyadmin announced last week that
> he planned to switch all his web servers from Windows/IIS to
> Linux/Apache, claiming a projected savings of $600,000 despite last
> year's IDC study which clearly shows that Linux has a much higher TCO
> than Windows) It has been totally and thoroughly debunked! Argh!
A link to the study - of course, the only copy I could find was on
microsoft.com (couldn't even find one on idc.com - hrmph!)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/docs/TCO.pdf
Levi
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