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Re: [LUG] Exeter Uni hit by Vista virus

 

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>> Yep I'd have thought they would have some sort of testing lab to test
>> updates before rolling them out.  At a previous company I used to work
>> for they would generally delay updates for testing for about a
>> fortnight to test against all the different systems, unless that is it
>> was an ultra urgent update.
> Last company where I worked at doing some form of MS admin we looked at
> that:
> To test you need as many servers for the test as you have live so that
> costs you twice as much in licenses!!!
> Tom te tom te tom


And MS claim that windows has a lower total cost of ownership

Seriously though we have yet more material here to talk about at any
meeting, here we have a real world example of how expensive commercial
software is,

if you take this additional cost,  how much would that compare to a roll
out of Linux servers, + training and other costs.


Paul



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