[wellylug] Microsoft FUD at work

[Shroeder]

As a newbie can you explain why these costs would be much different for a
business?

As far as I can see, linux doesn't guarantee no viruses (or should that be
virii) and so a well managed business would still need to maintain virus
protection methods?

Thanks
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Jones" <PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz>
To: <wellylug at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 2:47 PM
Subject: RE: [wellylug] Microsoft FUD at work


> And a thread on NZ.Comp mentions the enormous cost of anti-virus measures
> that need to be taken with MS systems - surely that needs to be rolled
into
> TCO as well
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan Harker [mailto:jharker at massey.ac.nz]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 4 December 2002 10:41
> > To: wellylug at yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [wellylug] Microsoft FUD at work
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday 03 Dec 2002 2:40 pm, Klenner, Colin wrote:
> > > IDC: Windows cheaper than Linux in some scenarios
> > >
> > >
> > http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/12/02/021202hnlinu
> > xcosts.xml?s=
> > >I DGNS
> > >
> >
> > Here's the same report, from a more reliable newsfeed! ;-)
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28408.html
> >
> > --
> > Jonathan Harker
> > MUSAC
> > Massey University
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