Hello, all - There were 2 interesting articles on page C3 in the e-Business section of the Calgary Herald today.
"Microsoft takes on Linux with appeal to bottom line" of interest in this article: "Microsoft is trying to show customers that it's the best choice when you make a buying decision based on the business value." "The company even commissioned a study, by International Data Corp., that concludes that in network infrastructure, file serving, print serving and security workloads, Linux-based servers cost more to run than Microsoft Windows 2000 server software over a 5-year period. The report cites the staffing costs as the biggest reason." ------- A smaller (and seemingly unrelated, at least to the uninitiated) article at the top of the page is entitled: "Klez named most virulent computer virus" I wonder if IDC took the cost of virus protection/removal/damage into consideration when it determined the cost of Win2K servers over that 5-year period.
