Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 1st Oct 2004 00:16 UTC
A senior IT executive at a major pharmaceutical company summed up the challenge for Linux at the ZDNet UK IT Priorities conference when he asked one simple question: what are the benefits in migrating from Microsoft to Linux at the desktop?
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Applications dictate what OS goes into most shops. In many existing shops it can't be changed due to proprietary applications currently in use. In other shops the cost of MS licenses can dwarf the cost of migrating existing proprietary applications to a run on a non-windows server/desktop.
Pointing to only the cost of licensing for MS products is often minor when looking at the overall picture.