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Linux misses Windows of opportunity (The Age)

Linux misses Windows of opportunity (The Age)

Posted Oct 2, 2005 19:37 UTC (Sun) by cpm (subscriber, #3554)
Parent article: Linux misses Windows of opportunity (The Age)

I found the closing line very interesting;

"The installation of SAP took two days on Windows, the installation on Linux Red Hat took two weeks. The total cost of ownership is actually lower in this case than with Linux because of the hidden costs of the support."

Isn't that directly from the "Get the Facts" playbook?

I wonder what actually happened.


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