“I’m always amused when advocates for a certain technology
proclaim a dominate player like Microsoft is soon to be replaced.
Steven Vaughan-Nichols made such a proclamation about Linux taking
over low cost PCs on www.linuxdesktop.com.“First, you should know that I’ve designed and built many more
products on Linux that I have on Microsoft’s OS over the past
several years…”
“The previously entrenched pattern was to spec-out 1-2 thousand
dollar desktops and run Windows on them. So let’s say you need 100
computers, each will coast 1,500, and you are going to put Windows
Vista, Microsoft Office, and a few other applications on it. No,
wait, you will need a 2,000 computer to do that. Let’s assume the
software costs a total of $1,000. So we are up to about $3,000 per
desktop, give or take. What did we need? A hundred of these? That
would be about more than $200,000 conservatively estimated…”
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