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
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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.


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