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Any Reason To Buy Microsoft?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pretty-certificates-and-nifty-joysticks dept.

zymano writes "This yahoo article says that almost everything enterprises once found unique to Microsoft they can now find somewhere else -- without some of the baggage that comes with Microsoft purchases, like ongoing security concerns and mystifying licensing practices and that in a recent survey of CIOs, Forrester Research found that about 25 percent of them were already in the process of replacing Windows servers with Linux."

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  1. Re:MS consistency by Billly+Gates · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Yes MS has great support. ***chuckles.

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  2. Re:Microsoft = more licensing cost AND Linux = coo by TrancePhreak · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Linux systems have more hidden costs than Windows. Linux systems don't declare that they require a high paid geek to sit and tweak them and take care of them when some script kiddie takes over the box. There's a million and one MS certs ready and waiting to get paid for any job.

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