____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 02 August 2007 11:44 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Seven Financial Reasons to Use Linux in the Enterprise
>>
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>>| 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?
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>> http://www.cio.com/article/127053
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>> 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".
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