[mdlug] What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away

[David Lane]

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.

They ended up paying a whole lot more money.

David

----- Original Message ----
From: Dave Arbogast <mdlug2 at arb.net>
To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 1:42:43 PM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] What Intel Giveth, Microsoft Taketh Away


What really amazes me is nearly all CIO's are forgetting Business 101
 or 
even SOX requirements -

Cost / benefit analysis....    Office 2007 cost 3x (12x?) more to 
operate, does it provide 3x more utility in return ? Better still, 
Office 2007 VS OpenOffice.

Same goes for Vista vs. XP, or better still Vista vs. Linux (pick your 
distro)

If they were really doing their job, they would see the hardware they 
invested in is not tied to an OS / Office suite that cost them millions
 
per year in acquisition cost and many times more  in AV. / maintenance
 / 
performance costs.

-dave

Michael Rudas wrote:

>LOL
>
>I mention this kind of thing on a Linux list because most peoples'
>perceptions of what a computer IS are so heavily influence by
>Microsoft software, so it impacts us all -- and MS has become an
>anchor, dragging all computer users to the briny depths of Trojans,
>spyware, and wasted computer power...
>
>"Case in point: Microsoft Office 2007 which, when deployed on Windows
>Vista, consumes over 12x as much memory and nearly 3x as much
>processing power as the version that graced PCs just 7 short years ago
>(Office 2000)."
><http://exo-blog.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-intel-giveth-microsoft-taketh-away.html>
>
>~~ Mikey
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