[KLUG Advocacy] More thoughts on the old TCO argument.

[Robert G. Brown]

On 14 May 2003 14:14:17 -0400, Bruce Smith <bruce@armintl.com> wrote:
>Who has the lowest TCO (total cost of ownership), Linux or Windows?...
>The main point of the article is about the time lost with with MS's
>buggy registration procedure. ...
>  Good article:  http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21392.html

Yes, I suggest this one a swell. I posted it off to one customer and they 
replied with something like "When do you want to come over and switch us?"

>They forgot to mention time lost on MS systems from problems caused by
>viruses and money wasted on anti-virus software, but TCO really isn't
>the main focus of this article ... (it's just my favorite part)   :-)
Yes, I agree.. there is more on the TCO issue:

ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/klug/tcocalc.ps

This is an old TCO study (spring, 1999) I did for a 10 Workstation LAN --
Linux vs. WinNT...in General, the changes that have happened since then (like 
Staroffice becoming less expesive [or using the freely available Open Office])
tend to make thing more favorable for Linux...

							Regards,
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