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On 27/09/10 20:53, Rob Beard wrote: > > From the site: > > Procurement decisions will be made on the basis of the best value for > money solution to the business requirement, taking account of total cost > of ownership of the solution. > > Sounds to me like that gives Microsoft the leverage to offer their > solutions cheap, isn't that what happened at a council (I forget which > one) where they said they were going to switch to FLOSS and suddenly > Microsoft gave them an offer they couldn't refuse and then they took it? A very common issue is that many TCO calculations are nothing of the sort. Most typically with all sorts of costs omitted. It's quite common for MS advocates to state something like "free software is only free if your time is free" whilst ignoring that proprietary software does not deploy itself or that "licence managment" can be a very expensive process (both in terms of time and money).
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