Re: Thinking about upgrading to Solaris 10

From: Greg Menke (gregm-news_at_toadmail.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: 25 Jan 2005 07:35:17 -0500

Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> writes:

> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 00:29:35 -0500, Greg Menke wrote:
> > But Windows TCO is cheaper. If Bill says it, it must be
> > true... lol...
>
> Easier is neither cheaper nor as productive or cost effective. Not a one
> of those TCO studies ever considered the cost of AV or the cost of
> ghosting thousands of desktop machines which had been virally infected
> several times per year.

Its kind of funny the only inputs to the TCO equation is the price of
software and "official" support. All the endless fooling around that
support personnel have to do to keep Windows systems going is never
presented. Its bad enough with just a few tens of machines, but the
cost and difficulty of managing networks of thousands of Windows boxes
is staggering. And Windows people won't admit it...

Gregm

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