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A couple of you sent in a link to an interesting article over at techweb.com. These days whenever a debate rages over what operating system should be used by businesses and corporations alike, someone always brings up total cost of ownership (TCO). Well, Gartner says the ever-increasing number of worms being created to exploit holes in Windows certainly affects its TCO.

jives BP6 User Posts: 2419 Joined: 2001-05-18

#29054 Posted on: 05/07/2004 08:48 PM What can I say tell them all to go Mac

Occupant Registered User Posts: 2421 Joined: 2002-03-04

#29055 Posted on: 05/07/2004 08:54 PM Sure... Then you can just pay that 15% premium up front and forget about it... Why not go with linux? that makes more sense... Lower TCO, lower equipement/software costs upfront... Fine. I'll spell it like everyone else does....

AssKoala Anti-Zealot @ GATech Posts: 3309 Joined: 2002-01-02

#29056 Posted on: 05/07/2004 11:52 PM Originally posted by Occupant Sure... Then you can just pay that 15% premium up front and forget about it... Why not go with linux? that makes more sence... Lower TCO, lower equipement/software costs upfront... Yeah sure, that makes a lot of sense. Do you honestly believe Linux is (inherently) more secure than Windows? If everyone switches to Linux, Linux will be targeted. Then they'll have to rapidly deploy patches for their Linux systems, bringing up their TCO. Same problem, different system. Me Webpage | If you always think like an expert, you'll always be a beginner. | "A handful of knowledgeable people is more effective than an army of fools" -Writing Secure Code, 2nd Ed.

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#29057 Posted on: 05/08/2004 02:14 AM Originally posted by AssKoala Yeah sure, that makes a lot of sense. Do you honestly believe Linux is (inherently) more secure than Windows? If everyone switches to Linux, Linux will be targeted. Then they'll have to rapidly deploy patches for their Linux systems, bringing up their TCO. Same problem, different system. A little to a lot, depending on how its deployed, configuration is everything (ok maybe not everthing, but a lot) in security. Because of the open source development team, flaws are addressed much quicker, and by a more diverse team of independent thinkers... (Iam not saying that linux developers are smarter than windows developers, it just the windows guys get tied into 1 corperate culture, 1 way of doing things... Linux guys (I think) are more likely to come up with new ways to skin the cat, than windows guys are... IMO) Linux does have some security & stability advantages over windows. Namely the Registry. I think this is the largest flaw in the windows design. Granted it got rid of the config.sys, and autoexec.bat, and all the other boot-time scripts, but Ive had more machines fail because of a corrupt registry than any other single cause... Also I was pointing to the Mac premium... macs being more expensive than a comparable windows box and (sometimes) the price premium some mac software cares.

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