The TCO worked out on Windows is absolutely bogus to say the least. The fact remains that we have so-called “analysts” assuming that because something is slight different, there for it must be inheriently more complicated to use.Ĥ) Good administrators cost money. I am certaintly no guru, however, with a bit of reading and practice, I can how setup servers FreeBSD/Solaris and Linux, without any problems. Linux isn’t hard to administrate as a server. If one were to take a 6 year snap shot of the business world, just look at how much money was wasted on unneeded IT equipment purchased by over zealous managers who some how think that by buy more IT stuff will make their business operate more efficiently.ģ) If the issue was purely based on ease of use for administration then MacOS X would win out over Linux, but that isn’t the case. Not one or two years but five and six years down the track. What these companies should look at is the long term cost. In the *NIX world, you can float form one *NIX to another with very small disruption, however, moving from Windows to *NIX is alot harder as Windows has not been submitted to a standards body, like UNIX, and thus documented so that other companies can implement the API. Why? because Microsoft is incompatible with the rest of the known universe. When moving from Windows to *ANY* platform, the cost is going to be higher. Basically, it puts the idea that the property *COULD* increase in value completely out of the equation. If I were to move from one area to another, I could simply argue that I might as well stay in the same house because I would have to pay for stuff to be packaged up, trucked to the new house and then unpacked. For the forum, all one needs is a database, say Posgres, PhP and Phorum.Ģ) People put too much emphasis on “initial cost”.

Both of these are provided by mature software already available. Most people I know, who have deployed Sharepoint have simply used one or two of the most basic functions, namely, the discussion forum and instant messaging.

Interesting article, however, the first quesiton I wish to ask is this What server application is missing that is available on Windows but not on Linux?ġ) The article talks about a so-called “integrated approach”, could some one explain to me the real benefits of integration between Office and Sharepoint? are there any real world examples out there where real data can be pointed to as proof that such a model improves efficiency?

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