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I'd love to see a discussion covering TCO at one of our future meetings. = As you are pointing out there are many cases where Linux may not have a=20 better TCO than Windows. I'm thinking maybe a short 10-15 presentation=20 from 2, 3 or 4 credible people followed by a discussion deferring the=20 politics to CBC. I'm looking for things like actual numbers and=20 experiences. We have a number of members who work for fairly large=20 companies who can get good numbers. On 11/18/2008 04:03 PM, Rich Braun wrote: > But to get/give any real benefit to it, you absolutely have to (1)=20 > yank out > any hostname- or application-specific stuff related to the internal sys= tems, > and (2) recompile/re-run in an offline environment. I.e., some level o= f QA > before I can upload to SourceForge, develop some PowerPoints and presen= t at, > say, a future BLU meeting. Labor cost may not be much, but it's not ze= ro. > > And you can see how overloaded with work I am...note the job posting th= at I > made earlier today (and on two other occasions during the past year). = This > time I got a couple responses, hopefully I'll have done my little part = to ease > the recession for a couple of families. > > > =20 --=20 Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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