As Mark Twain said, (paraphrased):
There are three types of stats: Statistics, damn statistics, and lies.
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From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of Levi
Bard
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 3:24 PM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] TCO - why won't it go away?!
> 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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