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Ballmer admits Linux' TCO is lower than Windows (duh!).

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voidmain:
http://www.theregus.com/content/4/25629.html

And before you complain about me not quoting the article in my messages, I don't do it because many news sites do not allow it. The link insures that you go to the news site to read the article.  I do not know what The Register's policy is, but if someone finds out that they are ok with it I will start quoting them.

Master of Reality:

quote: Windows is a lot more expensive to run than Linux, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has finally confessed. Despite Redmond's heroic efforts to defeat common knowledge with elaborately-rigged total cost of ownership 'studies', innuendo, FUD and outright distortions, the rhetorical power of common experience has become too powerful, even for a marketing behemoth like MS.

According to an article by VARBusiness, Ballmer now concedes that MS execs "haven't figured out how to be lower-priced than Linux. For us as a company, we're going through a whole new world of thinking."

Interestingly, an old page on the MS Web site claiming that the lower costs of Linux are "a myth" has been removed. In its place is a more reasonable item cheerfully touting the many wonderful features in Windows which Linux, it's said, lacks.

So it seems MS is going to stop defying common sense and take an approach we could sum up as, 'it costs more because it's worth more'. This too will probably not survive informed criticism or daily experience, but it's certainly easier for the company's flacks and salesmen to say with a straight face.
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if they give me a 'cease and desist' letter than i might not quote them anymore    .

take a look at the site it links to that compares windows 2000 to Linux. Its hilarious. They talk about Red Hat 6.2 not being as good as windows 2000 at clustering. They mention that windows can handle a whole 8 processors, but dont tell you that Unix (solaris actually) can handle up to 64 processors (i think).

[ July 16, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

Master of Reality:
ha... less than 100 more posts to catch up to you VoidMain.

voidmain:
Hey, it's quality not quantity that counts.  

Pantso:
It was about time they admitted that Linux is cheaper to use than Windoze. Hopefully, they'll start admitting more as time goes by, like the fact that Linux and *NIX systems are really unbeatable at clustering  ;)

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