Re: TCO on the desktop, NT vs Linux

1998-12-21 Thread Karl B. Hammar
On http://www.varesearch.com/ there is a link to a Datapro study where some 800 peaple was asked if they was satified with different OS's with regard to e.g. TCO. Also the Swedish networking paper "nätvärlden" quotes an unamed Dataquest report. The headline is "Windows NT the most expensive to ad

TCO on the desktop, NT vs Linux

1998-12-21 Thread Kent West
We all know that Linux saves mega$ in the server environment. However, my boss brought back the idea from a conference (EDUCAUSE) he attended last week that Linux costs 3 to 4 times as much as NT in time spent setting up and getting a desktop computer productive. I searched the web for info on des