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Yankee Linux-Windows TCO study under fire
Apr. 08, 2004

Australia's Sydney Morning Herald reports the doubts have surfaced about a recent survey sponsored by a US-based research firm Yankee Group. Results claim that "if most mid-sized or large organisations moved from Windows to Linux it would be prohibitively expensive, extremely complex and time consuming, and would not provide any tangible business gains for the organisation." The survey, hosted on the website of Windows provider Sunbelt Software, comes in a series of "studies" comparing Windows and Linux costs that has generated controversy and the ire of the open source community.

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