John Wilson wrote:
On August 31, 2004 11:22 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
http://www.forbes.com/enterprisetech/2004/08/31/cz_dl_0831msft.html
First off one needs to seriously question whether Newham was at all interested in using Linux or was simly using Linux as a way of bashing a pricing deal out of Microsoft.
That said, the article is full of errors of fact. For example:
"Add in the cost of retraining users and IT staff, rewriting applications to run on Linux, and the cost of paying separately for programs like application servers, Web servers and directories (which come bundled with Windows). You also may need to pay consultants to stitch the pieces together, and you might need to buy insurance to protect you against lawsuits over intellectual property rights. (One outfit hawks such policies for $150,000 year.) "
Last time I checked, which was all of about a day or two ago, application servers, Web servers and directory servers are available as GPL'd software at little or no up front charge. Certianly even Forbes has heard about Apache. As for consultants I can't think of one municipality or medium to large company that doesn't pay for consultants to stitch these things together regardless of the OS they run on.
They probably speak about that SCO claim to be theirs and also bill companies for using that software within their Linux environment.
Also, last time I checked, most of the applications mentioned in the paragraph above are freely downloadable for every major distribution and most little guys.
Later the IT type for the town goes on about that latest useless gimmick called a tablet PC. At this point those things are not even close to ready for prime time, need to be coddled to keep working because the hardware is so fragile and the software..well..the less said at the moment the better. I've field tested two of them and they're pure useless junk.
Still, it's a market and a serious software developer takes it into account wether tablet's are junk or not, it's not their product but the software is.
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