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Nope, can't agree with this:

> "these companies might be tempted to go for open source, but that would mean significant support costs where well-trained computer professionals are drawing unusually high salaries."

Unless you are regurgitating Bill Gates comment from a long time ago that anyone would be able to support Windows. Trojans/Virus'/Worms are the results of that line of thought. Funny thing is that I saw a Op-Ed piece a while back lamenting the fact that the author had almost decades of Windows experience, both as a user and as an administrator, he felt he needed to attend classes for the "new" version of the server software. I send him email and asked him how he could state that UNIX administrators were more expensive because of their higher training costs, he never replied.

You can't have it all of these ways...a functional MS server, a secure MS server or a cheap MS server. It's the old pick 2 routine, some would say 1.

Posted by: Cardinal_Bill   Posted on: 05/07/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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