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Story: Novell linked to 'Windows cheaper than Linux' statement

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Comment from Novell

Hi:

This is Bruce Lowry in Novell's PR department. Your headline is a bit alarmist, and I'd argue the the gist of the article is off keel. To try to suggest we're making a about-face on TCO arguments on LInux is just wrong. I've heard Matthew O'Neill at HSBC explain this situation. HSBC did a benchmark assessment of their internal IT environment. In the course of that, they concluded it was costing them more to run their varied Linux environment than their Windows environment. Their Linux environment included many different builds (some 50 or so) of different distributions. That created challenges in terms of systems management, application compatibility, life cycle management, etc. This was costing them money. By moving to a standardized SUSE Linux Enterprise, they expect to lower the TCO of their Linux environment.

So this wasn't a blanket statement that Windows is cheaper than Linux. Novell wouldn't associate itself to a statement like that.

Thanks.

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