[plug] Advocacy request

[John Summerfield]

> This should get you all crawling out of the woodwork...
> 
> I'm negotiating with a friend in Sydney about some work. The project
> involves putting a reference guide on the web - a job for Zope/PHP,
> mySQL and linux, it would seem. They're an NT shop right now, but it
> would seem that an open source solution would be much cheaper and
> reliable.
> 
> The main question I want to be prepared for is "What about
> administration costs?". Can anyone help me out with cost comparisons?
> (Did somebody say Total Cost of Ownership?)

IBM now provides support of Linux, both for selected of its computers, and 
I believe, under its global services division. Yo should find some info in 
IBM's web pages; presumably such a source would be credible.
 

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Cheers
John Summerfield
http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index.