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Win2k Cheaper than Linux
An anonymous reader writes "According to this story, Win2k costs an average of 11%-22% total cost of enterprise. The study showed that the initial investment takes up less than 5% of the total cost. Linux did beat Win2k in one category, Web-serving." Man did this thing get submitted a lot.
BS comparison, unless you weld the hood of your car shut **YOU** should stfu
It should be noted that Microsoft commissioned this study, which I'm sure did not skew the results.
but the up front is trivial in the true cost of ownership, it takes a much smaller number of admins to maintain and grow an existing *nix network.
Wow!
To think IBM And CyberSource who both have vested interests in Linux think it's cheaper.
Next GM will be telling us their cars are more reliable than Ford.
Older folks, when they had a problem with American foreign policy, actually made a distinction between bombing a small country, and the citizens not being politically conscious, since we are. Every American I talk to knows the stakes at bombing Iraq; every American I know realizes it's a sovereign nation, but 'progressive' politics aren't the only viewpoint. It seems you young'n'dumb folks confuse our foreign policy with our citizenry. Shame on you; foreign policy can be criticized, but such critizisms cannot be willed upon an opinion of the masses in any meaninful way.
"Hey man, I'm really clever. I pointed out that Americans are stupid."
IHBT. I know.
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How many of you are acutally over 15 yrs old and work for a large sized company? No we don't care about the small companies... We care about the mid to large size companies that own well over 98% of the worlds capital (scary isn't it) And I think the article was totally retarded because it was dealing with a stupid issue anyway. The simple fact is you use the system that most suits your needs. For your core system you will run a UNIX system (talkinga bout for a large/med firm ie more the 1000 people). not linux, not windows. For your desktops you'd probably run windows as oppose to linux. now I work for the third largest bank in the world and I can tell you exactly what the TCO considerations are and why we're moving to winXP server base on some of the workstation servers. All user/workstation servers ARE going to winxp no matter what. Why? because all the desktop workstations are going to be Windows XP. The TCO of running a WinXP server with WinXP workstation is INFINITELY better then running a WinXP desktop with a Linux backend or vice versus. Imagine a Nix guru trying to click his way through a windows server.... Shit ... I'd be scared to even imagine the down time when something breaks.. ("G'damn windows.. where's the stupid control panel..") That an why the hell would your user base need to use linux? Can you imagine an investment banker trying to make a powerpoint presentation on linux? Everyone is soo used to windows already if you had them learn linux .. my god would the costs jump immediately.
btw if windows were done for the backend core servers I'd still can see the TOC being lower then linux. Of course no sane company would run their trading systems on a windows box so that's a completely moot point. What all you ignorant 15 yr olds are talking about is the stupid shit... like installing linux from a boot cd or some stupid shit like that... Name one big company that willl spend a million dollars on a server and then worry about sticking in a boot disk to install an OS... (for a million dollars that damn thing better have an OS in there) so no the TOC doesn't include stupid stuff like that.... but when you talk about maintaining a system. Do you have even the foggiest idea how much sun charges for support?... it's like 10k$ / hour.... windows charges what? $400/ hour ? avg Nix admin (good one..) about 100k$ .. avg win admin about 80k$ ... and the thing is I'm never goign to bring linux into this. and that article was retarded for that. A large firm will never consider linux as it's core backend (except for like webservers) simply because they have the money to purchase the sun boxes with the sun high quality support. This thread always turns into a Win vs Linux bash and honestly commando Taco why do you bother posting these threads because people obviously don't give the informative responses like they used to.