From: "Adam Flinton" 


"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
news:6gpg1v4bfl15603oia79de3vaefnno4shd{at}4ax.com...
> 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.
>

If it was more than ten years later then I am in awe of their ability to
scale Windows 3.x 

Adam

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