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Worms Jack Up the Total Cost of Windows
rbrandis writes "Dealing with widespread worms like Sasser raises the cost of using Windows, a research analyst said Wednesday. "This is part of the carrying cost of using Windows," said Mark Nicolett, research director at Gartner. "The cost of a Windows environment has gone up because enterprises have to install security patches very rapidly, deal with outages caused by secondary problems with these patches, and deploy additional layers of security technology." "The Sasser worm attacks confirm our prediction that mass worm attacks against the multiple vulnerabilities disclosed by Microsoft on April 13 were likely," said Nicolett and his Gartner colleague, John Pescatore, in an alert posted on the Gartner site."
I'm switching back to the Commodore 64.
The TCO for Windows for the vast majority of slashdotters however is still steady and holding at "free".
;-)
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Scientists confirmed today that water is indeed wet, Abraham Lincoin is dead, and the earth is round.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
In your institution have an Coherence 101 course? :)
So SP2 is going to include a Microsoft add-on that monitors third-party add-on's that monitor the Microsoft OS.
Who said these guys didn't know how to design an OS?
Windows XP Pro for 200 systems: $30,000
Anti-Virus Software for Windows XP corporate: $7000
The billing rate for 10 contractors to come out and clean your systems: 700$/hour
Seeing the face of your CEO when you tell him linux is free: Priceless
There are some things money is wasted on, for everything else there is linux.
Total Cost of being 0wnzed
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
There are lies, damned lies and TCO numbers.
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...of problems with libc versions?