Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 02 August 2007 11:44 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Seven Financial Reasons to Use Linux in the Enterprise
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Even a discussion on religion and politics might well include mention of
>>>| operating systems when a Linux user is in the room. The enterprise has
>>>| quietly been adopting Linux, first on hidden-away servers but then in the
>>>| open and even on the desktop. Ignoring ideological debates that intervene
>>>| when the subject of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enters the
>>>| picture, let's cut to the chase and look at financial reasons for adopting
>>>| Linux. After all, it all boils down to "TCO" (Total Cost of Ownership),
>>>| doesn't it?
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.cio.com/article/127053
>>>
>>> Isn't that amazing? Apparently, cost is seen as the only consideration to
>>> some. Never mind privacy, freedom, control, reliability, support...
>>>
>>> Still, Linux wins when it comes to cost as well.
>>
>> Well, cost is the key issue here, and the long-term costs are dictated
>> by platform openness, the GPL being the key enabler to ensuring
>> openness, to preventing the lock-in on which Microsoft so successfully
>> built their business.
>
> Not just built, but also builds. HD/OOXML/XAML/XPS are the next generation of
> lockins, already secretly embedded in Vista. Be very afraid. There was a
> reason for many companies including IBM to approach the EU and declare that
> Vista should be "illegal".
>
It's a good point, and probably needs to be highlighted at every turn,
since we're up against the Microsoft misinformation machine here. You
only have to look at the number of people even here in cola to see how
powerful that machine is.
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