Comments on: Research on Linux vs. Windows: For What It’s Worth http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=38 How to get off, where to get off, and why you should stay off Microsoft, with news and tips on alternatives Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:49:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Solveig Haugland http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=38#comment-117 Sat, 19 Nov 2005 13:21:26 +0000 http://www.tonybove.com/getoffmicrosoft/blog/?p=38#comment-117 Excellent analysis of this whole idea of "facts." As they say, there's lies, damn lies, and case studies, or something along those lines. To get at the actual truth of a situation, you have to use critical thinking, get a lot of data....it's hard work, dangit. (Love the idea of magazines generating MS ad revenue with Linux articles.) To add to the data if not the critical thinking, let's look again at the story about France's tax agency. They expect to *save* 29.3 million Euros on 80,000 desktops by switching from MS Office 97 to OpenOffice.org instead of upgrading to Office XP. Switching to OpenOffice.org is expected to cost 200,000 Euros. (Which shows that they haven't thought about training costs yet for 80,000 users, but even if you double that 200,000 figure, quadruple it, or multiple it by ten, the numbers still look good.) http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39236477,00.htm http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39020463,39236214,00.htm Excellent analysis of this whole idea of “facts.” As they say, there’s lies, damn lies, and case studies, or something along those lines. To get at the actual truth of a situation, you have to use critical thinking, get a lot of data….it’s hard work, dangit. (Love the idea of magazines generating MS ad revenue with Linux articles.)

To add to the data if not the critical thinking, let’s look again at the story about France’s tax agency. They expect to *save* 29.3 million Euros on 80,000 desktops by switching from MS Office 97 to OpenOffice.org instead of upgrading to Office XP. Switching to OpenOffice.org is expected to cost 200,000 Euros. (Which shows that they haven’t thought about training costs yet for 80,000 users, but even if you double that 200,000 figure, quadruple it, or multiple it by ten, the numbers still look good.)

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,39236477,00.htm

http://insight.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,39020463,39236214,00.htm

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