By Munir Kotadia
Published: Monday 13 December 2004
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Name
Goten Xiao
Location
South England
Occupation
Programmer
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The results will point one way, yes - but I doubt the report was COMMISIONED by the Linux community. All of the Microsoft reports were *PAID* for by Microsoft themselves.
And even using bulk licensing, I doubt Microsoft would gain a lead. Especially if you factor in downtime costs, repairs, viruses and the like.
It's a shame they didn't take usability and user s...
Jamie Bishop
Next time, try using the bulk licensing prices (Mi...
Anonymous
How can a study in this case ever be independent. ...
Anonymous
The results will point one way, yes - but I doubt ...
Goten Xiao
Just assuming the figures are right....or thereabo...
Anonymous
Surely it all depends on salesmen making presentat...
Janet Harvey
The only truly unbiased study possible would be a ...
Niall Bole
and i wouldn't trust a comparison run by apple eit...
reb
These TCO studies are very odd. With experienced ...
Dingletec
These studies are absolutely useless. How is a st...
Alan Matic
It would be nice if you could put a cost on user s...
Todd Cunningham
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