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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."
SCO may change this claim. If they can push license fee's, Microsoft software will be very much cheaper.
If your time is worth say, $12 an hour, and it takes 20 minutes to copy a file on linux, while only 2 minutes on windows, then the costs add up. Linux would cost around $4 while windows would cost just $0.40. So that $3.60 saving will add up.
Choosing Microsoft Products May Cost 10-40% More
Really. Did they figure that one out themselves or do they have a team of monkeys working on this around the clock?
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Troll!
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
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... you won't get that with Open Source apps.
Note: The following will surely be marked Troll by those who can't stand to be disagreed with, but here it is anyway:
People say: "Microsoft costs more!", and maybe that's true. But maybe they're worth more? You don't see Microsoft going, "Hmm... how can we make Office emulate OpenOffice? How can we make our desktop look like KDE? How can we share files with SMB?".
No, you see open source people doing that to Microsoft.
Meanwhile, Microsoft makes jobs, Microsoft employees donate about 30 MILLION dollars a year to charity, matched by Microsoft, and Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world, but he's also a major philanthropist. http://www.gatesfoundation.org
On the other hand, the last article I read about Linus quoted him as being happy he got to drive a convertible. Wow, way to contribute to society and the economy.
die fagballs.
You have to pay people to keep fucking patching windows every week!
/pissed off windows user.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
You heard it here frist
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Why don't you tell us how many "quid" the US$699 SCO license for that "cheap" SuSE boxed set is?