Comments on: Microsoft Hijacks the Voice of Novell Customers http://techrights.org/2007/03/14/microsoft-hijacks-voice/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: JohnK http://techrights.org/2007/03/14/microsoft-hijacks-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-559 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:20:30 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-hijacks-voice/#comment-559 If you read exactly what was said, HSBC said that running more than one Linux Distro is more expensive than running Windows. Considering they have a support contract with both Novell and Red Hat and Sun (for Solaris) then it is obvious that their M$ platform will be cheaper than all the others combined. Now that they are standardizing on one *NIX platform then they will have a lower TCO. The release was carefully edited to hide this but it is there.

]]> By: Kripken http://techrights.org/2007/03/14/microsoft-hijacks-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-427 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:08:04 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-hijacks-voice/#comment-427 The claim that “Windows is cheaper than Linux” is hilarious – if that were true, why are they using Linux at all?

On the other hand, if somehow Linux comes out to be more expensive than Windows for HSBC, and they STILL use Linux, then it must have a lot of added value over Windows. Which might be true in some cases; Red Hat can cost more than Windows in some server configurations – but it is (arguably, of course) a better product. More importantly, you can use CentOS, and save much of the cost.

Amusing.

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