When Lintel beats Wintel
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| As asked that’s a no brainer: if you’re not dumb enough to pay someone like
| Red Hat to impose a license on you, Linux really is free - meaning that it’s
| always possible to get Linux for less than Windows.
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| To extend that simple argument over the life time of the system you need to
| make a lot of assumptions - but reasonable assumptions produce reasonable
| results: i.e. if you’re fair about the assumptions, Wintel falls further and
| further behind Lintel as you extend the time frame simply because the cost of
| acquiring, installing, and supporting Linux applications is always less than
| that for Wintel applications.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1094&tag=nl.rSINGLE
Recent:
Measuring TCO: Wintel vs Lintel
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| The most basic, and traditional, Wintel vs Lintel TCO comparison argued that
| since the hardware is the same, everything comes down to the cost of the OS
| and applications licenses -all of which are free for Lintel and expensive for
| Wintel.
|
| [...]
|
| I’ve tried to do a number of these - and the result, ultimately, is an
| argument by induction: do enough scenarios with enough internal variability
| and you’ll discover that Lintel always beats Wintel if (and only if) the
| Lintel investment is properly managed.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=1090
Related:
Ballmer's Remarks Inspire A TCO Trip Down Memory Lane
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| The email surfaced in early 2007, while Microsoft was embroiled in an Iowa
| class-action lawsuit over alleged monopoly-pricing practices. (The company
| settled the lawsuit in February, 2007 for $179 million.) According to the
| email -- part of a slew of subpoenaed documents Microsoft would have
| preferred to keep to itself -- at least one company official argued that it
| would be "easier" not to own up to sponsoring the IDC study.
|
| The Microsoft exec, Kevin Johnson, now the head of Microsoft's Windows
| product team, wrote that he was concerned about competitors turning
| Microsoft's sponsorship of the study to their own advantage. Oddly enough,
| however, Johnson focused on the fact that the IDC study picked Windows as the
| TCO champ in only four out of five outlined business scenarios.
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http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2008/03/ballmers_remark.html
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| "(Microsoft manager:) I don't like the fact that the report show us losing
| on TCO on webservers. I don't like the fact that the report show us losing
| on availability (windows was down more than linux). And I don't like the
| fact that the reports says nothing new is coming with windows .net server."
|
| [...]
|
| "I don't like it to be public on the doc that we sponsored it because I
| don't think the outcome is as favorable as we had hoped. I just don't like
| competitors using it as ammo against us. It is easier if it doesn't mention
| that we sponsored it."
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http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/9000/PX09695.pdf
NY Times bans Microsoft analysts from Microsoft stories
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| Part of the problem stems from the reticence of companies such as
| IDC and Gartner to reveal their clients. That should make everyone
| nervous, but it doesn't. So called objective technology publications
| keep publishing material bought by vendors without telling you this.
| They're also too lazy or scared to ignore the likes of Gartner and
| IDC until the firms change their disclosure rules.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/15/nytimes_ms_ban/
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