How much longer are they going to want linux though if:
a) Linux is more expensive. Take a company looking at deploying either Linux or Windows XP to the desktop, for a 4 year period. While these companies expect to upgrade the applications over that 4 year period they would prefer to keep OS changes to a minimum (ideally just security updates and maybe drivers for new hardware if needed). They
Microsoft Windows XP: $300.
You forgot a few things here:
Microsoft Office XP: $579 McAfee Antivirus: $120 (60 + (3*20)) McAfee Personal Firewall: $70 (40 + (3*10)) and so forth...
As you can see, just Office and Windows XP exceed your worst-case senario for WS.
Red Hat Enterprise WS: $480 (300+(3*60) * $720 (300+300+(2*60) **
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