[ILUG] Linux is more expensive than Windows

[Bryan O'Donoghue]

Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions wrote:
> The advert that they ran in Sunday's CIB stated (in small print):
> "Results may vary outside the United States. This IDC study was conducted
> for Microsoft"
> That seems fairly clear to me.


Call me cynical, but, didn't M$ introduce the concept of TCO, sometime areound 
about summer of 2001, when they started their campaign to undermine Linux, 
having failed to make 'doze cost anything even vaugely close to Linux distro 
(x) to produce? Alot like the failed attempts to make the base install anywhere 
near as small as FreeBSD, never mind uClinux?

I seem to remember a VB guy who foamed at the mouth incrementally, presenting 
me with pamphlet from M$, which had discs inside of it ... colourful disks I'll 
admit... where the pamphlet banged on about TCO, and tried to get me to install 
this quote "great replacement for Apache", called IIS. Really, this anti Open 
source pamphlet came in some sort of packaged box set, with 2k server, SQL 
2000, etc

Dar leis this link
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/TCO.html

TCO is a buzzword M$ has hijacked, since the term ZAW (Zero Administration for 
Windows), seemed to drown during all those bad Nimda & Code Red thingys.


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Bryan O'Donoghue
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