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Well from my own work I found M$ very expensive to support it takes this in the real world.
1. One full time person for an office of small business as in under 250 employees to track and document license compliance, to be safe one person per department plus one heavy hitter on Admin to explain to the owners that just because they want to deploy means there is no cost. M$ costs $$$ and owners wants are always bigger then what they want to pay for.
2. No you cannot roll over all those old Win 95 OS and Office to the latest and greatest because of the type of license you started out with.
3. One person to Admin SQL and track it's patches.
4. One person to track the latest patches for IIS.
5. One person to handle my system is frozen up AGAIN problems.
6. One person to Admin Exchange and keep track of it's patches.
7. Oh lets not forget we need a Information Systems Director to over see what everyone else is doing.
Yeah M$ has low Admin cost?$?$ I think M$ is still looking at the Nix software of say 1987 in their cost study.
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after experiencing openoffice which came with redhat 8, i dont know why you would even bother to go out and buy m/s office really unless you really desperately needed it for something, where can you get a fully functional o/s with an office suite for nothing?
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The only problem with the free Office Suites I've tried, and it's admittedly a minor point, is that none with which I'm familiar has grammar check. In my current occupation it's a big help. Even if sometimes the recommended corrections make no sense, I know something is wrong and can work to correct it. I use on older version of StarOffice, and things would go much faster if even a primitive grammar checker were added.
