Immunity: Microsoft Windows: A Lower Total Cost of 0wnership

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 14, 2004

“Microsoft has long asked third party analysts for accurate
assessments of the total cost of ownership of Microsoft Windows
deployments, especially against the Linux deployments commonly
going into all segments of the market. However, Immunity, Inc. as a
third party assessment provider has, until now, not done a thorough
analysis, using Immunity proprietary data to tell the true story
about the costs of Open Source…

“Based on our analysis, Microsoft Windows has one half the Total
Cost of 0wnership (TC0) of modern Fedora Core Linux based
technologies…”

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Web Webster

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Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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