Tahir Hashmi writes:
<quote> The report argued that Linux costs more because more network administrators are needed to maintain a Linux system. </quote>
This thing has come up on various forums several times lately and the a lot many people feel that this is the point that will appeal to the PHB's since they find it more cost-effective to hire MCSE monkeys (that's what many posters call them, honest!) to look-after workstations as well as the servers than a more expensive Unix/Linux sysadmin.
from slashdot: Good techies + OSS = highly effective, low TCO MCSE Monkeys + M$ = Disaster
I don't know for sure whether Linux admins are more expensive or not. However, I guess the "more network administrators" bit is crap.
M$ haasn't got value for money. Maybe they should hire better manipulators next time a *sponsored* study is conducted.
The above was the first discussion that came to my mind on reading the article. Maybe you can read minds Tahir ;-)
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