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If you consider it in the light that Garter is putting their article in (you just upgraded all your machines to XP and all the latest software) then perhaps it is not in your best interest to turn around and throw that investment away and install Linux. I think the report is accurate in the way it is presented, but the main point Garter is trying to push (and OSNews as well according to their headline) is that Linux may not be cheaper than Windows which really isn’t true. The other plus is Linux doesn’t tend to chug along using 100% of the CPU just trying to keep a web browser open (my current Windows issue, which is why I’m reading OSNews right now - still waiting on a Windows reboot). Perhaps graphic artist shops and letter crunchers are in a different boat, but in my field, the cost difference is night and day in favor of Linux. Now, if I installed a stable Linux distro, say Debian, I get all that for the cost of a CD-R or floppy disk depending on how I want to install. If you are using a few applications, then the TCO may be closer, but when most Linux distributions come with a program or utility to do just about anything any developer would need to do, it’s hard to say that Windows may be cheaper.įor example, if you have a small office of 10 developers, you will be paying between $80.00 and $100.00 for Windows per seat, around $1,000 dollars per seat for either Borland’s or Microsoft’s development tools (I think the cost for these is actually higher), $20.00 per seat for a decent DIFF tool (since MS and Borland’s suck), a couple hundred for Office, etc. I think just the opposite is true (at least for developer’s workstations).