Steve Ballmer did a letter about Linux ...
Novell responds:
http://www.novell.com/linux/truth/response.html?sourceidint=homepage_announcement2
... the test used Windows protocols only, while Linux had to emulate the
Windows protocols using Samba.
Yankee Group's report:"Linux, UNIX and Windows TCO Comparison"
... the following, which Ballmer did not cite:
- "Linux shows measurably improved TCO compared with UNIX and Windows
in small firms, in organizations with customized vertical applications
and ...
- "The ability to modify and customize the Linux source code affords
customers the most intriguing possibilitiesn ...
Forrester Report, "the Costs and Risks of Open Source."
- "Linux expertise is extensive, and growing rapidly. Computer science
graduates today have grown up on open source, not Windows."
Evans Data Corporation, in their Linux Development Survey dated Summer,
2004, shows that there are 1.2 Million Linux developers and growing.
Ninety two percent of survey respondents indicated that their Linux
systems have never been infected with a virus.
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