Munich Spurns Steve Ballmer's Software Rebates
Roy Culley
'Kurt Pfeifle writes "Steve Ballmer's recent trip to Munich to offer
up to 90% rebates for the Microsoft Software Assurance and Licenses
was in vain. The ruling party of Germans biggest city and
self-proclaimed 'technology capital' now decided to migrate 14.000
workstations to Linux and an OSS office suite. A study comparing the
alternatives had assigned 6218 (out of 10.000) points to Linux/OSS,
while the MS Windows platform only scored 5293. Babelfish translation
of the latest newsticker story."'
90% rebate and they still chose Linux. 14,000 workstations. Great news
for SuSE I presume.
Evpuneq Erivf
> Geezus Christ, what do the Germans consider a 10,000 ?
Yes sadly most of Europe uses a . instead of a , to separate thousands and
millions. I'm sure you can get over it, after all Europe is just an
insignificant little island off the coast of Britain ;o)
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Evpuneq Erivf
> I am asking: what would constitute a 10.000? Using that many
> significant digits to rate something, astounds me.
Ah, I see - well, it is derived from:
Security (~1000)
TCO (~2500)
Transition costs (~1500)
with two teams doing the same analysis (so 10,000 total).
About 6000 is average/good, but the scale is heavily based in favour of
the middle - so 6200 (Linux) was respectably good and 5200 (Windows) was
very poor indeed.
Complex enough that a 1-10 wouldn't cut it, but I guess a 0-100 or 0-1000
would have done pretty well.
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Olav Tollefsen
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> Roy Culley wrote:
>
> > It's on /.
> >
> > 'Kurt Pfeifle writes "Steve Ballmer's recent trip to Munich to offer
> > up to 90% rebates for the Microsoft Software Assurance and Licenses
> > was in vain. The ruling party of Germans biggest city and
> > self-proclaimed 'technology capital' now decided to migrate 14.000
> > workstations to Linux and an OSS office suite. A study comparing the
> > alternatives had assigned 6218 (out of 10.000) points to Linux/OSS,
>
Made 100% in Germany by Germans is clearly a 10,000.
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Olav
D. C. Sessions
> Typical Germananic attention to detail, 1 to 10 wasn't enough.
> They knew where every bullet went in WWII but still lost the war.
> However, they build great cars and tools.
Well, mostly. Some recent BMWs seem to have,
shall we say, quirks.
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Ian Hilliard
> In <pan.2003.05.27....@linuxmail.org>, flatfish+++ wrote:
>
>> Typical Germananic attention to detail, 1 to 10 wasn't enough. They
>> knew where every bullet went in WWII but still lost the war. However,
>> they build great cars and tools.
>
> Well, mostly. Some recent BMWs seem to have, shall we say, quirks.
>
Yes, but things should get better. They've stoped using Windows CE and
are now integrating Linux.
Ian
Jazz
17:55:
> Typical Germananic attention to detail, 1 to 10 wasn't enough.
> They knew where every bullet went in WWII but still lost the war.
> However, they build great cars and tools.
I'm sure that winonut tactic must have been given a number. Do you also
happen to know what that number is?
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