This is old, and was immediately rubbished by all (other than MS...) that read it.
If you are being challenged by your colleagues at MIMOS (or departments of the Malaysian government), note the following points: IDC is owned by IDG (http://www.idg.com/) who make lots of money from advertisers. Open source companies do not take much advertising in any of their publications, apart from LinuxWorld. The study is of TCO over a five year period. It compares Linux (which five years ago really did require deep inner knowledge to make work) against Windows 2000 (which came out less than three years ago, and wasn't widely adopted immediately). Now either MS or IDC must have invented a time machine to carry out the study at all, and even in that eventuality, the study would certainly not be valid given the developments in the ease of use of Linux. Regards Chris -----Original Message----- From: Rudhuwan Abu Bakar To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2/14/03 7:27 AM Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Can I share this and get your comments? http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2002/dec02/12-17TCOstudy.asp Sorry. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
