[windows2000] Re: IIS Virtual Directories
- From: Chris Berry <chris_berry-list-windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:28:28 -0700
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Ray at home wrote:
|>Our extreme low budget gives me strong incentive to look at other
|>solutions anyways,
|
| Whoever is in charge of your budgeting doesn't seem to realize that he
needs
| to look at the TCO. 9 times out of 10, Microsoft will beat out the
| seemingly cheaper products in the long run.
I have yet to even convince them to look at TCO yet, we're stuck in an
early 1980's style cash only system right now. I'm trying to educate
them that we should be using ROI instead but that hasn't happened as of
yet. However, even assuming that was the case my own data seems to
support the fact that Linux/Open Source Software tends to have a much
lower TCO over long time spans, though if you're all an all MS shop now
the transition/retraining costs can overwhelm that advantage. In
addition, it tends to change your staffing requirements from lots of low
cost/training individuals to fewer high cost/training ones, which may or
may not be an advantage depending on your corporate culture. If you
have any more data/opinions on that though I'd like to hear it, as I try
to make dispassionate decisions based on objective data when possible.
|>but Licensing 6.0 was the straw the broke
|>the camel's
|>back for me.
|
| Microsoft is PLENTY aware that people hate the licensing and find it
| impossible to figure out. Let's see what happens with 7.0. I think
they're
| going to get it right next time - as right as possible, anyway.
Probably true, but C#, .NET, WinFS, and Office2003 DRM seem like blatant
lock-in ploys to me, though I may be over-reacting.
- --
Chris Berry
chris_berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Systems Administrator
JM Associates & Coast Business Service
"Perl - The Swiss Army Chainsaw of programming." --Henry Spencer
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