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[News] Window-Intel Leads to 50% 'Tax', Considered a Naive Choice

  • Subject: [News] Window-Intel Leads to 50% 'Tax', Considered a Naive Choice
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:19:55 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Murphy’s law, or why WinTel wins

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| The bottom line is you’re paying roughly a 50% tax (you spend 64% of what you 
| would otherwise) running WinTel. 
| 
| So why do companies still buy Windows? For the same reason their fathers and 
| grandfathers bought IBM. Because everyone else does. 
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2089

Costs: Wintel vs. open source

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| So why does Wintel continue? because of mistaken beliefs - including most 
| importantly the belief that other people believe in it - and that’s bad for 
| you, bad for the economy, and bad for your employer. Why? because when people 
| base IT decisions on delusions they forgo the opportunity to generate 
| competitive advantage from IT, and foreclose the option of spending an 
| available open source dividend on more productive activities.     
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1084


Related (Old):

Can Intel Face The Competition?

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| Intel (INTC) is facing strong competition from Advanced Micro Devices, 
| which has led INTC to slash prices. For INTC, this pricing war resulted in
| lower revenue on higher unit sales.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070116/24244_id.html?.v=1

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