Re: Total Cost of Ownership less for Linux
@SQLDBA History has shown that microsoft was at on point in the same situation as Linux. They were competing with MAC's for the desktop and MAC systems were superior then. Then MS was competing with UNIX and the UNIX maturity which was over 20 years old at the time going up against the orginal BSD systems.
It was techy passionate types (and good marketing) that squeezed MS products (which was really not on par with UNIX tehn) into the enterprise and the same for desktop since at that time MS had price and cheap hardware as their strong suits.
History repeats and those who do not attach a significance to history are doomed to be shocked by the changes that history demands.
Those who do not understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it poorly.