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  1. Comment - Study: Linux and Windows Costs Equal

    (Sep 26, 2006 - 11:41 AM)

    We invited Microsoft to help us study the problem; and like the guys in the study found that Windows was "cheaper".

    After many lunches with our execs, they convinced management that, for example, it would be way too expensive for us to hire consultants to make any of the Linux spreadsheets bug-for-bug-compatable with Excel; and since the CFO knows Excel, it's important we stay with windows across the company.

    It's amazing how without rigorous analysis like this we would have missed the hidden cost of making Linux apps bug-for-bug compatable with the Windows ones.