[KLUG Members] Merrill Lynch: Linux saves money!

[Bruce Smith]

Thought I'd beat Bob to this one.  :-)

http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1014287.html?tag=fd_top

Isn't Microsoft always saying that the real money savings is in the
people supporting the computers?  Well, Merrill Lynch agrees!  :-)

Quotes from the article:  "It's the people that cost the most"

"We've done our numbers, and we are a bank, so we know our numbers"

"Keeping their file systems on Windows servers would have cost the
company $600,000 in hardware and five times that to pay for the
personnel to manage the servers"

FIVE TIMES more for M$ personnel!!!  Interesting!   :-)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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