Re: [Fsfe-uk] Bruce Prerens' ideas for a 'UserLinux' non-corporate distro

[Paul]

Hi,

> >This has hampered the adoption of Linux. For example, a very large 
> >multinational bank recently informed me that they had called off a 
> >10,000-system Linux deployment becuase "Linux is now more expensive than 
> >Windows". 
> >
> More details please. Was cost the only criteria? I imagine a bank would 
> value other qualities.

The PHB at the top/bottom of the food/evolution chain had probably been
talked to by some dumbass from Redmond and mentioned the evil SCO and
put the fear of FUD into them.

I can think of only one circumstance where Linux would be even close to
being more expensive that Windows and that would be if a company relied
totally on (say) Access for everything, but even there that could be
countermanded as you can export Access to MySQL...

TTFN

Paul
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