Myth: Linux has a lower TCO ( was Re: DNS (A 1.0.0.0) problem with DSL)

From: /dev/null (dev.null_at_BeginThread.com)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 17:49:53 GMT

> Myth: Linux has a lower TCO
> Fact: If you consider that buying NT licenses for business use is
> tax-deductible, as are all those tech support calls, NT actually has a
> lower TCO than Linux! How are you going to expense software that doesn't
> cost anything? Eh?!?

That's lame.

So with NT you spend money on lic and support and pay 25% of that money
spent less in taxes. Let's see an example:

let's say that your lic and support for NT cost $20,000 for a year. So now
you take that as an expense and don't pay tax on that so that saves you
roughly $5,000, you neted a total of -$15,000 ($20,000 spent minus $5,000
saved in taxes).

With linux there was no cost so you saved the entire $20,000 and paid taxes
on it, roughly $5,000. So you neted a total of +15,000.

That's a $30,000 difference. Your company could have bought a datacenter
full of equipment for that amount of money.

I hope you're not in charge of the finances for your company. With lamer
advice like this small companies go broke and big ones end up like enron.

Wake up. M$ will never make more sense than Linux.

I'll bet you take out a home mortgage so you can pay the bank an extra
$10,000 in interest per year so you don't have to pay taxes on that money,
saving you $2,500 but putting you in the hole by $7,500 a year.

L-)

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