From: Mike '/m' 

On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 11:49:49 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>I have never accepted the MS TCO estimates.
>
>My reasoning is quite simple, if licensing costs were an insignificant
>portion and support and administration was where the money is at, then MS
>would be looking to provide support and administration instead of making
>licensing more expensive.
>
>If you are going to look at it from strictly an admin cost pov, then I would
>like to know how suddenly windows became so popular even though unix has
>existed for years (initial cost doesn't matter so commercial unix is a valid
>test of this pov).


Brain-dead CIO's have mistaken believed Microsoft's line when they were
told that it is cheaper to run servers using the same OS as the desktops.

I worked for a $5billion/year company that swallowed that line completely. 
And regretted it less than ten years later.

  /m

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