MCP Magazine: Winning the Linux Wars Jan 9, 2006, 14 :30 UTC (12 Talkback[s]) (9092 reads) (Other stories by Rich Freeman)
"It was the kind of scenario that used to strike fear into Microsoft partners' hearts, and Tim Marshall remembers it well. A midsize business was evaluating collaboration solutions, recalls Marshall, vice president of technology at Neudesic LLC, an Irvine, Calif.-based solution provider and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.
"'Microsoft came in and pitched Exchange and SharePoint and so forth to the customer and said the licensing was going to be $500,000 [€413,700], give or take,' he says. Then another vendor came along and proposed a Linux-based solution with licensing price tag that was hard to beat: zero. That's when Microsoft called in Neudesic..."
