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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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After 12 years, the Linux zealot's ancient 386 machine gives up up the ghost! The machine went through alot, going through DOS 5.0, 6.0, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Debian gnu/Linux. It even had a Geforce 4 on it using a AGP to ISA converter.
But now the machine was dead. So the Linux zealot decided to go to the local PC world to get a new machine.
He decided to get a Athlon 3500+ Packard Bell, when all of a sudden he heard a giant DUNNNNNNNNNN! And behind him, was the largest cheese greater in the world! Behind him was this fat bearded geek with an Apple logo on his chest. He was an Apple zealot. Suddenly Linux zealot had a weired feeling as a Giant Titatainum X appeared on a huge LCD display.
The titanium X span around a huge smiling blue face, while a cube appeared and rotated towards a desktop. The Apple Zealot started to talk about his Mac affection, and how he was going to buy a G5 to complete his collection, but the price, was almost 5,000 EUR, while the packard bell only costs 2000 EUR, and was noticbly faster. The spinning rainbow ball span for ages while it attempted to copy a 17 Mb mp3 file onto the zealot's iPOD. The Zealot said it was due to the fact that this machine was running the 68k version of OS X, and if you ran the G5 version it would only take two minutes, if that.
Anyway, he decided to "convert" the linux zealot, so he offered to give him one of his Imacs for free Since Linux zealot dosen't have much money (Flipping burgers to pay the bills of developing gnome software!), he agreed to get a free computer (that is, if you can actually call macs a "real" computer). So the Mac zealot told Linux zealot to meet him at his house later on that afternoon.
[ to be continued ]
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