On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 09:25, Sanjeev "Ghane" Gupta wrote: [SNIP] > > I stuck with netware 3.xx for 15+ years and still using for my > > companies base ERP, so 15 year can't really be ruled out. > > Sudev, I think I was unclear in my formulation. > > I am OK with a 15-year lifespan of computers (on and off, I used mainframes > till 1994, and were they old!). I am just not convinced that you can look > at a baby a couple of years old, and predict how much its total expenses > will be in 15 years. > > Remember, Linux is just a couple of years old. Any data point on Linux, for > corporate deployment, which is older than that, is referring to a very > different beast. There is little point comparing RH7 with FC2, right? For > MS, we have a slightly longer set of time series, in that the crucial > difference is Active Directory, so we can extrapolate (or try to) 3 years to > 15. Not much better. > > Do you plan IT expenses over a 15-year term? Heck, does your company have a > 15-year plan? I think these studies are using too little data to > extrapolate too far. The maths is valid, the data is not.
Touche -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
