[Fsf-friends] Economic times - News

[Raj Mathur]

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>>>>> "Sarath" == Sarath Lakshman <sarathlakshman@yahoo.com> writes:

    Sarath> Dear friends, Please look at the news heading in economic
    Sarath> times newspaper on wednesday April 6th.

    Sarath> ---------------------------------------------------------
    Sarath> 'Linux, Windows have similar maintenance cost'

    Sarath> Most US business say there is very little difference
    Sarath> between the cost of maintaining a Windows versus a
    Sarath> Linux-based corporate computing environment........news
    Sarath> follows....

    Sarath> ---------------------------------------------------------
    Sarath> Collect the Economic Times of 6th April to know abt this
    Sarath> news report.

What's the big deal?  There are five types of lies, worse in order of
naming:

Lies
Damned lies
Statistics
Benchmarks
TCO studies

I can make a TCO study that'll make Winduhs come out free to maintain,
all by choosing the appropriate assumptions.  Unfortunately MS hasn't
offered me enough yet to do it... :)

Regards,

- -- Raju
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