[KLUG Members] Merrill Lynch: Linux saves money!

[Adam Williams]

> 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!  :-)

Maybe Merrill will buy SCO?

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

Yep.

> "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"

It is interesting that they would have to spend more on hardware to just
stay at where they are.

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

Comparing myself to most M$ techies I've worked with,  it isn't even a
stretch to believe 5x or even greater.  And thats not bragging!  A mole
can outrun a snail.