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Story: Gates' interoperability claim 'is nonsense'
Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 9 February 2005, 2:14 PM)
Total cost of ownership extends beyond the free download of a server or desktop product.
When your company has to pay over $100 a man hour for product support, you quickly surpass the initial cost of Microsoft products.
When your IT person quits and leaves you sitting with a "kluge jobbed" server, there's going to be a long and expensive learning curve for the next person in that seat.
It's your choice. Maybe your company can afford the down time.
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Story: Gates' interoperability claim 'is nonsense'
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I wish Gates would speak plain English.
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interoperability! Is Bill's brain interoperable wi... Stephen Bennett
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Making the NTFS and MS-SMB specifications roy... Cirilo Bernardo -
Well done Ingrid, discoverer of the apostrophe! Ba... Anonymous
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Yea, like there are never version compatibility is... Tom Barta
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Maybe he can't snow the analysts, but you bet the... Anonymous
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Gate's real problem with Linux/OSS is that it is a... Tom Russell (Stomfi)
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Interoperability? Worry about operability fir... Mark Selby
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Gates claim is true that microsoft is interoperabl... Anonymous
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it is not nonsence there is allready interoperabil... Anonymous
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Interoperability problems in Linux?
Well, I'm... Cirilo Bernardo
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Total cost of ownership extends beyond the free do... Anonymous -
Mr MN USA says "When your IT person quits and... DJ Automate
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Apple is an example of Gates' comments. Interopera... Richard Ashford
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Gates. "Additionally, the open source development... Anonymous
