Choosing Microsoft Products May Cost 10-40% More

securitas writes "Jupiter Research has issued a report that says businesses that choose to stay with Microsoft products may end up paying anywhere from 10%-40% more than if they chose another solution. Software Assurance clients will see the lowest costs and SA-have-nots will see the highest costs. The rationale is that Microsoft's strategy of integrating server and client software, as it has done with the new Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft Office 2003 suite, will force costly upgrades and licenses. Ultimately the goal is to transform Office into a platform instead of a collection of applications. Analyst Joe Wilcox says, "Microsoft argues that increased integration will cut down ongoing costs, maintenance and what not, but whether that will be the case has yet to be seen. The increased acquisition costs, though, are pretty clear." This leaves the door open for other office suites like Corel WordPerfect, Sun StarOffice and OpenOffice. More on costs and integration at Jupiter/Wilcox's Microsoft Monitor Blog."

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haven't "used" MS for a while

[GerbilSocks]

This is the exact reason why my computer still runs Windows 3.11.

Re:ah, yes

[TedCheshireAcad]

Pretty much.

Shocking!!

[Dr. Photo]

I for one am shocked by these figures.

10-40% is far too low to be plausible. ;)

Integration cuts costs?

[oogoliegoogolie]

"Microsoft argues that increased integration will cut down ongoing costs, maintenance and what not, but whether that will be the case has yet to be seen...

Yeah, like how integration of IE into windows OS has cut down on maintenance costs.

Re:No surprises here

[JHromadka]

What about AppleWorks? Oh who am I kidding. :)

Re:Choosing Microsoft Products May Cost 10-40% Mor

[Anonymous Coward]

TCO is dead. Long live ROI!

Re:10-40% higher than PREVIOUS MS SOLUTIONS

[Tokerat]

So basically what you're saying is that when comparing Microsoft to Microsoft, Linux still wins? God, we rule. :-)

Re:ah, yes

[Anonymous Coward]

To hell with Free Admin Depot, just get one of the gnu hippies out of his parent's basement. The sunshine would do him good.

Re:10-40% higher than PREVIOUS MS SOLUTIONS

[be-fan]

w00t!

Re:Choosing Microsoft Products May Cost 10-40% Mor

[Sri Lumpa]

I don't understand, I don't have any K on my computer, but I think a cracker got into my computer, he even left a footprint.