Eric Jahn wrote:
>I, as an unemployed yankee expat, have just read the M$ TCO report and
>am now thoroughly convinced. I will switch my Gentoo workstation
>running Eclipse to MS Server 2003 and the .Not Studio (formerly
>codenamed after some neighborhood in/near Seattle, but never Tacoma) and
>replace sendmail with a 2 seat Exchange server license for me and my
>roommate. It all adds up: my previous system costed nothing and now I
>will pay a lot. However I'll get M$'s famed support and the service
>packs semi annually. Moreover, I will support the NW's ailing economy
>and Boeing layoffs with much needed charity contributions. Another way
>to help Seattle, by not supporting M$ is to buy a Boeing plane or, more
>attainably, a Mac and Jack's Amber Ale made in their Redmond
>microbrewery.
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Let's not overlook the trickle down effect...supporting the hardware
vendors (each new version of nearly anything from MS requires a minimum
of a Cray to run), the antivirus vendors, help desk personell, and so
on. ;-)
Jeff
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