<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yes I was in a shop where I thought I had professional digression I asked every body in my group if it was okay to use Linux & MySQL for a project. After it was approved the tech manager forced Microsoft down on us.<br><br>They ended up paying a whole lot more money.<br><br>David<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Dave Arbogast <mdlug2@arb.net><br>To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug@mdlug.org><br>Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 1:42:43 PM<br>Subject: Re: [mdlug] What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away<br><br>
What really amazes me is nearly all CIO's are forgetting Business 101
or <br>even SOX requirements -<br><br>Cost / benefit analysis.... Office 2007 cost 3x (12x?) more to <br>operate, does it provide 3x more utility in return ? Better still, <br>Office 2007 VS OpenOffice.<br><br>Same goes for Vista vs. XP, or better still Vista vs. Linux (pick your <br>distro)<br><br>If they were really doing their job, they would see the hardware they <br>invested in is not tied to an OS / Office suite that cost them millions
<br>per year in acquisition cost and many times more in AV. / maintenance
/ <br>performance costs.<br><br>-dave<br><br>Michael Rudas wrote:<br><br>>LOL<br>><br>>I mention this kind of thing on a Linux list because most peoples'<br>>perceptions of what a computer IS are so heavily influence by<br>>Microsoft software, so it impacts us all -- and MS has become an<br>>anchor, dragging all computer users to the briny depths of Trojans,<br>>spyware, and wasted computer power...<br>><br>>"Case in point: Microsoft Office 2007 which, when deployed on Windows<br>>Vista, consumes over 12x as much memory and nearly 3x as much<br>>processing power as the version that graced PCs just 7 short years ago<br>>(Office 2000)."<br>><<a href="http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-intel-giveth-microsoft-taketh-away.html" target="_blank">http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-intel-giveth-microsoft-taketh-away.html</a>><br>><br>>~~
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