The story is at: http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2001/1018.tco.html
The story covers the Total Cost of Ownership comparison between unix + proprietary solutions in two different situations. This is definitely something you want to show to those responsible for running businesses that employ IT dept's. It's by Paul Murphy who wrote "The Unix Guide to Defenestration". If we (euglug) were to put together a business oriented presentation this would be a very good starting point to open the conversation about why Unix/Linux/free software solutions are better in the long run. http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) http://allie.office.efn.org/phpwiki/index.php?OregonPublicNetworking
