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Story: Ballmer: Google wants special treatment in IE

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Posted by: Oldator (Friday 12 May 2006, 12:25 PM)

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"It is hard to beat open source for cost of acquisition. It is not hard to beat open source on total cost of ownership." Ballmer still claims the TCO of windows
is less than Linux. Companies I know that use Windoze
have more admins than companies using Linux. Maybe they pay them a lot less, for having to know less. Ask a Linux admin about downtime and he will ask, "what is that?" Windoze admin will tel you in days per month.

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