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to: Geo.
from: Mike `/m`
date: 2003-06-08 18:46:02
subject: Re: Merrill Lynch: Linux saves money

From: Mike '/m' 

On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 18:42:35 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
>news:3ee35792{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> 2) "In fact, Snodgrass found that, while the software
licensing costs of
>> Windows was higher than Linux, the highest cost was in managing
>> traditional Windows infrastructure.
>>
>>   "It's the people that cost the most," he said. "
>>
>> Blows a big hole in the pro-Windows argument.
>
>It doesn't ring true either since it wasn't so long ago they were saying how
>much more unix admins make than windows admins which were described as "a
>dime a dozen"..
>


Windows admins are "a dime a dozens".   But the ones who actually know
what they are doing are much more expensive.

 /m

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