Lourens replying to Alex Daniloff wrote:
> Hello SuSE folks,
>
> One big company management is thinking about developing new
> software product for engineering applications.
> This software should include database, web and desktop
interfaces.
> There are two possible choices of OS for this product.
> Ether they should go with Windoze or make a leap into Linux.
> Windoze is less stable and more spendy on license costs and
> cost of additional software for DB and so on and so forth,
> The company has commercial support from M$ and their executive
> droids more familiar with Windows.
> Money is not a big issue for them in this case.
>
> What arguments other than cost and license fees can be made to
> convence
> executives to give Linux a try.
>
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