[plug] MS Office and TCO

[Leon Brooks]

Bradley Woodward wrote:
> I'm very close to having permission to put a linux box into the department
> for more than just evaluation purposes.  Last week I was with in a [g]nat's
> whisker of getting them to dump Win2000 server, NT IIS 5.0, MSSQL 7.0 and ASP
> web stuff in favor of Linux, mysql, Apache and PHP4.  I even had pricing to
> show them how I was about to save the company damn nearly $10,000 in software
> licensing fees, not to mention hardware costs.  Instead, it's going on a
> third party Solaris box, but damn it I kept my PHP4.

Would they be sad if you quietly wedged a little '486 box (say, in a nice thin
Osborne case like the one behind me) under your monitor and plugged it into the
network? One day, a tech may discover to his immense surprise that the
enterprise revolves around a small antiquity on someone's desktop.

-- 
"Try moving off NT easily. You can move from Solaris to HP/UX to
AIX or DEC easily relative to moving off of NT, which is like a
Roach Motel. Once you check in, you never check out."
    -- Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems