Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 1st Oct 2004 00:16 UTC
Linux 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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@Tim
by Anonymous on Fri 1st Oct 2004 20:38 UTC

"Migrating to Linux on the desktop for any large organization isn’t simply a matter of downloading an ISO image and installing it on everyone’s PC. It’s the cost of migrating, testing, and supporting the existing application base on the new platform that will be the real expense."

Amazing how simple the truth is.