Re: [ossig] Help: How to Beat Microsoft OLP (Long-ish!)

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17/12/2004 01:28 Senandung Mendonan said the following:
> In this case, does this mean migrating to OSS would actually be more 
> _expensive_ in pure $$$ sense? Especially since we're thinking of 

in terms of procurement, perhaps so. however, if you take into account TCO 
over a longer period, this may turn out to be cheaper. you've already 
highlighted some of these (anti-virus et al), but there's more:

1. unlimited user/scalability - no more license fees if userbase increases
2. cost of downtime/loss of productivity
3. cost of virus attack recovery/prevention
4. longer lifetime of hardware in lieu of software bloat
5. press publicity (for conversion to OSS)

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