Microsoft tends to release software before it should and works to deliver features in lieu of function and stability. This is great for wiz-bang stuff like office however when you consider from a pure TOC perspective Microsoft is simply a very expensive way to go. I was recently at a MS convention and we were making their engineers sweat when we asked them off-line to match our linux cluster solution over a follow-the-sun architecture giving 99.999% availability. I've also worked with their TAM's who all to often say "why did you buy that version of our software? you need the new version".
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Microsoft tends to release software before it should and works to deliver features in lieu of function and stability. This is great for wiz-bang stuff like office however when you consider from a pure TOC perspective Microsoft is simply a very expensive way to go. I was recently at a MS convention and we were making their engineers sweat when we asked them off-line to match our linux cluster solution over a follow-the-sun architecture giving 99.999% availability. I've also worked with their TAM's who all to often say "why did you buy that version of our software? you need the new version".
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Kattfish