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Energy Company Refutes Windows TCO Claims
apt-get writes "Computerworld Australia has a gem of a case study on Country Energy with comments from an IT manager that shoot down Microsoft's 'objective' Windows TCO claims. My favourite; 'we get to see both sides and Windows is not cheaper at all'. Interestingly, in almost every area of its critical IT infrastructure, open source and commercial software work in peace together. The IT manager even says not having MS Office on Linux is a hindrance to its desktop take up."
Competent ones?
I know god exists. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
can any of those run vb script macros?
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
It constantly confounds me WHY none of the open office alternatives leave out this VITAL piece of software. Instead, preferring to point users to some other project not integrated into the office applications.
Mark me up as troll if you must but I believe Outlook to be one of the best, if not exactly secure, pieces of software microsoft has ever made. The latest version fixes a lot of complaints and security problems of the past and adds some really nice features.
-The Anonymous Bastard
"I use *IX instead of *NIX since they seem to have had an IRIX or two in there" So what do you do when they have Solaris? *I*??
-- Jason
To be fair, I don't like Open Office either.
;-)
Someone didn't take the blue pill did they?
we wanted to integrate the shareware version of Linux into our server pool
When you start off thinking that Linux is shareware then you've just demonstrated that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Anything else that follows in your post can only be viewed as slapstick!
having programmed in VB for the last 8 years doing kernel level programming
Oh man you're a scream. This has gotta be a troll. A very funny one at that.
kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem
Ok gotcha, this is for those who still don't realise its a joke post. Tell em something obviously false.
Yes a hilarious post, though unfortunately some people might think you actually mean what you said. If you did .... well um ... hate to say it but you're an idiot, just hope your clients don't find out.
Bitter and proud of it.
Basically, the IBM guy said the code of Notes was an absolute mess
Having worked with notes that does not surprise me. What does surprise me is that an IBM guy would admit that. Usually when I ask the local IBM rep about buggy software he gets this distant zombie like look in his eyes and responds with the same mantra (in a hollow, mechanical voice):
It will be fixed in the next version....
Only to idiots, are orders laws.
-- Henning von Tresckow
I think I know why Microsoft keeps coming up with these "TCO" studies showing Microsoft costs less to own.... YOU DON'T OWN IT!! As you said They own you
I'd like to see a "TCBO" study - Total Cost of Being Owned. I imagine the cost goes up with each virus... because you're owned by the virus writers then to
- Dan
nah, think of all the cost implications of those nerf wars in the cubicles, and the health and safety issues caused by all those mac boys hanging their mountain bike on the office walls...
Being anti-capitalist, anti-corporation, and anti-profit motive precludes you from comprehending the definition of such "buzzword bullshit." I'll try to break it down into language even you can understand. Okay, so let's picture a system that isn't capitalist, corporate, and has no profit motive, and let's call this system, oh, I don't know, Communism. So this Communism thing is going to have lots and lots of people doing lots and lots of different things: farmers, doctors, waiters, etc (none of which, of course, will be motivated by profit, just the love of being a Garbage man). In Communism, a lot of time will be spent in something called "overhead," which well define as people not doing things that relate to their job function. A doctor managing his schedule, a delivery guy filling out forms, and so on. Now, since no one will be motivated by saving money, we'll just assume they'll be motivated to save time. Maybe that's a bad assumption, since it seems in Communism, everyone loves their job, but still, let's work with it. To save time, we would need to cut overhead and make processes more efficient. Some times, this will be very complicated and difficult. For a large organization, lets say, a Police Department (perhaps another bad assumption, as I'm sure communism will have no crime), they'll have lots and lots of information going from place to place that, often times, is disseminated and processed multiple times by multiple people throughout the organization. I hope I didn't loose you there. This is where the "enterprise strength solutions" will come in. To maximize productivity, we'll need to maximize information organization and processing throughout the organization. This is a complicated task, as it involves many facets of the organization, and requires tools that can manage this task. [Open|Star|K]Office just simply can't cut it, they just simply don't have the power. Hence, "enterprise strength tools," such as MS Office, Sharepoint, exchange, etc, are the tools for the job.
You would consider a door with fifteen handles and ten ways of opening to be "worth more" than a door that has one handle which works exactly as you expect? Hardly.
I don't know. Ask Larry Wall.
Why, o why must the sky fall when I've learned to fly?
Yeah, ofcourse man! I mean, who would release an Office package for the mainstream without perl and scripting support? That's the one feature that everyone needs.
After they learn about locating their own files on the harddisk, that is.
Not Buzzword 2.0 compliant. Please speak english.