Microsoft tips for pitching to Linux geeks

[John Van Ostrand]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 11:46 -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >> http://www.sublimemedia.com/usCSI/uscsi_web.swf
> >>
> >> I learned about this from here:
> >> http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/betaliving/viewblogpost.htm?p=339270778
> >>     
> >
> > I am confused.  Whatever is that for?  Sure doesn't make much sense.
> > Buttons bring up things unrelated to what you are looking at currently,
> > and is there any useful information in there?  Does microsoft think that
> > is useful information to anyone?
> >   
> 
> The useful information to me is what this says about Microsoft's views 
> of its own channel. :-)

I love Microsoft marketing. When we were a MCSP and got the marketing
kits they were always full of contradictions.

In this one I find it interesting that:

The Windows shop (called the Linux Experimenter) spends $830K on IT
The Linux shop (called the Linux Aficianado) is spending $703K.

Both have the same number of PCs (160 vs. 153) and the workload is very
similar but the Linux shop requires fewer server systems (50 vs 25).

That sounds like a TCO measurement in favour of Linux.

The Windows shop also states that the next server will be Windows (46%)
or Linux (42%)


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