Microsoft tips for pitching to Linux geeks

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:47:11PM -0400, John Van Ostrand wrote:
> 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).

Well that part sounds downright honest.

> That sounds like a TCO measurement in favour of Linux.

Well that would be realistic after all.  Probably takes less admins to
keep the servers patched and up to date and running too with linux.

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

The rest probably want dos or solaris. :)

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