George Toft wrote:

> Joining the battle . . . 
> 
> 
> Short version: Converting to Linux costs much, much more.  An 
> example is presented for a "hypothetical" local company converting 
> their desktop to Linux.  Result is that it will cost over
> $900K - just to avoid a $150K license.
> 

George,
If you have links to that report please post it. Because Amazon, The 
Department of Justise, IDC and serveral small biz have *all* shown 
savings of 10's of thousands of dollars in TCO (millions for Amazon). 
That's why the NSA and Intel has taken hard looks at converting. And I 
can assure you right now IBM is NOT pushing Windoze. They still support 
it true but All of their sales agents have been told to spread the word 
about Linux.

Carl P.