[Am-info] MORE FUD from MickySoft via Forrester!

[Fred A. Miller]

Note below, "Microsoft-commissioned report from Forrester Research Inc. 
claims." Yep, MickySoft BUYING these "reports" - AGAIN!!

Fred

Linux development can be more costly

"Creating and maintaining a custom Web-based application with Java and 
Linux is almost 40 percent more expensive than using Microsoft Corp.'s 
software, a Microsoft-commissioned report from Forrester Research Inc. 
claims. 

The report, which was released on Monday, estimated the cost of building 
custom J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) and .Net applications within 
large and medium-sized organizations. Forrester based its cost 
estimates on interviews done with IT staff at 12 sample organizations. 

The study found a huge gap in software maintenance costs incurred by the 
two approaches, due in large part to the price difference between the 
BEA Inc. and Oracle Corp. software that Forrester compared to 
VisualStudio .Net and Microsoft SQL Server. Software maintenance in a 
large organization was estimated at $160,000 annually for a Linux/J2EE 
development effort, as compared with just under $46,000 for Microsoft 
users. In medium-sized businesses, the costs were $17,775 and $7,158 
respectively."

http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/09/09/HNforrester_1.html

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the Ugly)."