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"A successful parasite does not kill the host"
Nobody apparently, at Microsoft, has ever heard this quote before. You can't continue to put out crappy and insecure software, charge a fortune for it, and expect to rule the world forever. The perfect storm of Microsoft overestimating the patience of it's customers and underestimating rapid evolution of both it's proprietary competitors and the open source ecosystem is finally coming to light.
The sales rep from Microsoft was completely incredulous when I explained to him that we had migrated from Office to OpenOffice.org and from Exchange to Google. So much so that he wasted no time in calling my immediate supervisor the same day to make the same sales pitch. It's nice when you are on the same page as your boss.
Microsoft's Exchange in the cloud service - $60 per employee per month
Google's Apps Premier program - $50 per employee per year
Never mind the $65,000 we save by dumping Office in favor of OpenOffice. And we'll likely save a similar amount by migrating from XP to Arch Linux.
Surely I'm not the only one who has gone down this road...
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