[PLUG] dumping unix for linux

[alan]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Robert Anderson wrote:

> I have found that what management really cares about is cost. Cost of
> migrating, cost of licensing, cost of hardware, and ongoing cost of
> ownership. If you can spell things out in dollars and cents, they will go
> for it. They probably don't care that penguins are cute. Although, you are
> right... penguins are cute.

I have found that to be false in most cases.  Otherwise why would anyone 
ever buy a Windows print server CAL?

What they want is security.  They want to go with what makes them 
comfortable, no matter how much more it costs them.  If they believe that 
Windows will give them that "warm and fuzzy experience", then they will go 
with Windows.  For some shops it is Solaris.  Others it is Oracle.

Cost is rarely the number one reason for any management choice.  They are 
managers, not accountants.  (Besides...  If they don't spend all of their 
budget, they get less next year.)


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