lets see... purchasing the OS, purchasing the "new" office pack. possible minor hardware upgrades, re configuring the router/firewall. installing new antivirus, remote softwares and new software based firewalls, installing and configuring a email software, teaching people how to use the system as a whole. with win 7 easily racks up to 30+ man hours on the instal side./machine. then you add the teaching part another 6-10 hours easily. and wages for people who usually do those things. vary from 18-41US$ depending on what you ask for him to do. so 2000US$ is low estimate on IBM's part. now when you do the same with linux. the installation progress is less painfull considering. most of the XP gen. antivirus and firewall softwares work without a hitch on linux. and ubuntu comes packed with a complete open office which has only few things working differently than in MS office. those alone save hours. not to mention the intial purchase costs less. then theres the email software. comes packed with ubuntu also. so more time saved there. no hardware upgrades needed, router configurations can be transfered from pc to pc in ubuntu based systems. and with current linux builds if you know how to use xp or vista, doesnt take more than 1-2 hours of poking around to get you familiar with the GUI.
i can easily see why IBM prefers unix and/or linux based systems these days.
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i find it funny since those spreadsheets open just fine when i use double O on the PCs we got in uni. maybe your just too dumb to use it properly ^_^
lets see... purchasing the OS, purchasing the "new" office pack. possible minor hardware upgrades, re configuring the router/firewall. installing new antivirus, remote softwares and new software based firewalls, installing and configuring a email software, teaching people how to use the system as a whole. with win 7 easily racks up to 30+ man hours on the instal side. /machine. then you add the teaching part another 6-10 hours easily. and wages for people who usually do those things. vary from 18-41US$ depending on what you ask for him to do. so 2000US$ is low estimate on IBM's part. now when you do the same with linux. the installation progress is less painfull considering. most of the XP gen. antivirus and firewall softwares work without a hitch on linux. and ubuntu comes packed with a complete open office which has only few things working differently than in MS office. those alone save hours. not to mention the intial purchase costs less. then theres the email software. comes packed with ubuntu also. so more time saved there. no hardware upgrades needed, router configurations can be transfered from pc to pc in ubuntu based systems. and with current linux builds if you know how to use xp or vista, doesnt take more than 1-2 hours of poking around to get you familiar with the GUI.
i can easily see why IBM prefers unix and/or linux based systems these days.