[Gllug] Windows 7

[JLMS]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Christopher Hunter <cehunter at gb-x.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 09:37 +0000, John Winters wrote:
>
>> XP certainly still has its faults, but they are manageable,
>
> Actually, in a real, business sense, they aren't.  You can't expect
> users to maintain their own systems, so you end up with the "corporate
> imaging" option which produces a huge workload for the IT maintenance
> team.  The trojan, virus and other Windows stupidities that hinder
> productivity also have all to be factored in to the "TCO", which (no
> matter how many bogus statistics MS try to show) IS always several times
> higher with Windows (of any flavour) than with anything else.
>
> I had this argument just last week with a very senior manager in a huge
> government department.  His entire reasoning (apart from the fact that
> his boss told him to) was that Linux admins "cost more" than Windows
> admins.  I pointed out that even this was bogus in that they would need
> about ten Linux admins for the organisation, where at present they
> employ 97 Windows "admins"!
>

How can one get this evidence out there?

I have seen this time and time again, but somehow this little very
relevant factoid is not reaching as many lay ears as it should...
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