Ask OSDL CEO Stu Cohen About Linux TCO Studies

Posted by Roblimo on Monday February 13, 2006 @02:00AM from the truth-lurks-somewhere-in-the-grey-gloom dept.

This morning OSDL and OSDL member Levanta jointly released a study done by Enterprise Management Associates called Get the Truth on Linux Management. For years, a proprietary software company in Washington State has run what they call a Get the Facts campaign about Linux, full of studies that invariably show Linux to be expensive, hard to maintain, and less than totally secure. Stu Cohen, as CEO of OSDL, a group "dedicated to accelerating the growth and adoption of Linux in the enterprise," will happily answer your questions about Linux vs. Windows studies and the myths and FUD that seem to hover over them. Expect Stu's answers to the 10 - 12 highest-moderated questions later this week.

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If OSDL believes that Linux has a superior TCO ... by hweimer · 2006-02-13 02:27 · Score: 5, Interesting

... why don't they use it?

Almost every PDF document on the OSDL website has been created on a Windows PC or on a Mac. Even the Desktop Linux Survey Report shows:

$ pdfinfo DTL_Survey_Report_Nov2005.pdf Title: Microsoft Word DTL_Survey_Report_v4.doc Creator: Word Producer: Mac OS X 10.4.3 Quartz PDFContext

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