Comments on: Study shows Microsoft, Linux costs neck-and-neck

Windows' security also improves, though it still trails Linux rating.

DiDio and Independent are mutually-exclusive terms.

The widely discredited Laura DiDio does not *do* independent research. Given a few days, we will likely discover once again, that this, like all other "research" seen to date purporting to claim positive things about Microsoft Windows was paid for by Microsoft.

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You make claims but fail to support them

Widely discredited? Prove it or close your pie hole.

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Server is only part of the cost.

The problem with a MS propietary server is that it often locks
you into a MS proprietary client (Windows/IE/Office) and MS
propietary infastructure (Active Directory, Sharepoint, etc). Ka-
ching, ka-ching, ka-ching. So say goodbye to your choice, as
well as your money.

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Why locked?

There are lots of options when it comes to the MS platform. 602Software offers options for Office/Email/document sharing; there is OpenOffice, Word Perfect... The list just goes on and on. From free to reasonably priced. There is no need to buy further software from Microsoft.
The ?lock?, I have often found, is the lack of understanding within a company of what they want and why. And that, quite frankly, is platform independent.