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Ret. World Bank CTO on Desktop Linux TCO Facts

Posted by timothy on from the illusion-of-choice dept.

comforteagle writes "W. McDonald Buck, retired CTO of World Bank, believes we need to take a more honest and frank look at the Cost Analyses it will take to put Linux on the corporate desktop. In Part I of Corporate Desktop Linux - The Hard Truth he begins with one of the most common misconceptions... that a business can buy a computer without Windows and save money in the transaction."

4 of 345 comments (clear)

  1. Ofcourse by n0dalus · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The boxes with Windows are less expensive than the boxes without."

    This is common sense, they're paying us to help dispose of their rubbish.

  2. Re:Bring it on. by ggvaidya · · Score: 3, Funny

    We're talking about TCO - Total Cost of Ownership.

    You mispronounced 0wnership.

  3. Re:More Fodder for Anti-Trust? by Lu+Xun · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah yes, then perhaps MS would have had to donate more of their own software in restitution for their abuse of monopoly. That'll teach 'em.

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    That's not a soda... it's a caffeine delivery device!
  4. Re:Article before the slashdot effect kicks in... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bread with butter: $
    Bread w/o butter: $$

    It's more expensive without butter because the clerk put butter in all the breads and have to take the butter off the bread.

    Smart, huh? That is how Dell seems to work.