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Re: Part II: Corporate Desktop Linux - The Hard Truth
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by Anonymous on Feb 14, 2005 - 09:29 AM
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To continue with my above post:
If you have internal support or don't care to keep up-to-date on software in general, then the software being obsoleted isn't that much of a concern. The software variable is thrown out of these equations leaving only the hardware variable to calculate with. Most business are not comfortable dropping the software variable out of these TCO equations.
Then again, I know of tactics where the mandated minimum software requirements are fairly contemporary--MS Office 2003 requiring Windows 2000 or XP as an example. I do not see any features of MS Office 2003 that would prohibit me from using it with Windows ME or 98. This calls into question the mandate. Was it really necessary or a tactic the get the user up-to-date on the software pre-requisits.
If DRM is the reason Microsoft required at least Windows 2000 to install, then that brings up the big discussion on vendor/developer lock-in.
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