[lelio]

Am I wrong in remembering this is the same bunch who came out with a 'study' that claimed open-source was more expenseive than proprietary?

I love those 'studies' -- its like compared some college kid's senior project that he put up on sourceforge to a commercial product that's been around for years. Of course the commercial one is going to be cheaper in the long run as they did the legwork for you.

I would worry about any manager that places any credence in these generic studies. Course there's never a shortage of idiots out there.

[Dimensio]

Of course the commercial one is going to be cheaper in the long run as they did the legwork for you.

It's worse than that. It goes to the point of comparing Linux on a big mainframe rig vs. Windows 2003 Server on a dual-Xeon processor machine, and pointing out that you'll pay more in power costs on the mainframe.