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January 21, 2004
Vendor lock-in catch-22 case study
Migrating away from Microsoft products is a catch-22 for many organisations and strategies are often counter-intuitive. A report on London's Newham Council on The Register, How to help MS, harm OSS by not buying Microsoft is a great illustration of this.
NOT spending several hundred thousand pounds and upgrading their Microsoft Exchange Server licenses actively works AGAINST plans to move to Linux desktops...
Posted by .M. at January 21, 2004 01:50 PM
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