Microsoft's changing tune on Linux (News.com)

Posted Jan 23, 2003 13:30 UTC (Thu) by metacircles (guest, #8895)
Parent article: Microsoft's changing tune on Linux (News.com)

We don't compete in local economies for services business, so those dollars stay in that economy. We did a study and found that, on average, for every dollar that goes to Microsoft, nine dollars go to the local economy. And we think that's a very impressive ratio

In other words, "The total cost of deploying Windows is ten times as much as the software cost/licence fees alone". Is this figure consistent with the TCO surveys they report on?