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<< Someone might be tempted to say 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. >>

And you know this how? From reading MSFT sponsored position papers? I love it when people who can barely find the power switch on a PC start spouting dribble that only announces they've never run an actual hands-on trial or set up a server in their entire working career.

It doesn't cost anymore to support F/OSS than Winblows. Even if you pay more for the techs, and there's nothing to support that MSFT latte inspired fallacy, you don't need as many of them.

In any hands-on trial of F/OSS that we've run, for any customer, MSFT has never won. Not on cost, not on reliability, training costs, security, scalability, nothing. Zip, zero, nada. Not everyone opts out of the lemming treadmill, but it's not because the facts don't support the change. But that's going to change.

<< If the United States can add verification of software licenses to the requirements for exporting companies, that would be a major advantage for adoption.>>

Major advantage for who? You don't think we've pushed enough of our culture and big ideas on the rest of the world? Maybe it's time to listen instead of talk.
Posted by: Chad_z   Posted on: 05/07/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Microsoft can't sell to them?  nucrash | 05/07/04
Selling now is not the point  tero_t_vaananen@... | 05/07/04
Much more to the point  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/07/04
WinHEC? Innovative Hardware Lock-in To Windows?  claytonmuhler | 05/07/04
Every on on the planet has a TV...  boatelc | 05/07/04
Who needs a PC to heard sheep?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/07/04
I've heard several sheep.  Yen_z | 05/07/04
Consistent global pricing?  Fred Fredrickson | 05/07/04
maybe  V Sanders | 05/07/04
Microsoft needs to worry about current markets first!  AbsolutelyNot | 05/07/04
But why do all that?  Chad_z | 05/07/04
you can always go to  V Sanders | 05/07/04
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... So_many no_longer_use_M$_drekware, bozo.  dicktaurus@... | 05/07/04
stop the rhetoric  stephen732@... | 05/07/04
Obviously a flame bate...  gtdworak | 05/10/04
It's the dollars stupid.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/07/04
Right. Now take it a step further.  Anton Philidor | 05/07/04
Nope, can't agree with this:  Cardinal_Bill | 05/07/04
Business strategy, not software.  Anton Philidor | 05/08/04
I'd look at this from a different angle  tic swayback | 05/08/04
And you know this how?  Chad_z | 05/07/04
Creating a model for a business plan  Anton Philidor | 05/08/04
More to it than that  tic swayback | 05/08/04
Yes, there's also price and availability  Anton Philidor | 05/09/04
1 out of 4 is ... well, bad.  Fred Fredrickson | 05/07/04
Don't think that's the potential market  j.m.galvin | 05/10/04
So to recap WinHEC  Richard Flude | 05/07/04
You missed Mr. Gates proclamation.  Cardinal_Bill | 05/07/04
$30  Franklin_z | 05/07/04
Single world price...  robradina@... | 05/10/04
Windows a world Standard?  xshakes | 05/08/04
Stop beliving the MS hype  xshakes | 05/08/04
My adivce would be to ask Steve Jobs, too  mlindl | 05/08/04
Maybe the US is an emerging market...  FederalistPaperBoy | 05/08/04
Makes some of you very happy  FilledOut | 05/09/04
win xp is hell to work with  hipparchus2000 | 05/10/04

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