Microsoft funded IDC report that claims that the Linux TCO - 13% higher than an equivalent MS Windows solution (3 mentions)
Linux requires on-site development staff or contractors to fix serious bugs and to apply kernel patches (3 mentions)
MS PowerPoint is the best presentation tool (everyone uses it) (10 mentions)
MS Visual Studio is much better than any open source IDE (2 mentions) -- Linux IDE tools are back in the Dark Ages! (1 mention)
OpenOffice loses MS Word document formatting
There is NO PC Anywhere for Linux (and that is our help-desk and administration standard)
"I also asked the pro-IE6 respondent how compatible his IE5.5 and IE5 systems were with IE6 and he could NOT see the point of my question. When I mentioned industry standards compliance he replied that I should just accept the fact that what everyone uses is the standard.
Linux is NOT secure, after all it is made by back-yard hackers!
MS Windows has a single sign-on facility that is much more secure than anything Linux has to offer
I could get fired if Linux fails
I trust MS Office tools
No-one gets fired for buying MS Windows
MS SQL is the best, it is fast and easy to configure
Old hardware is unreliable and should not be used
Linux has NO answer for MS Terminal Server
[^] # Il y a vraiment du boulot...
Posté par Nicolas Boulay (site web personnel) . En réponse au journal Is Linux a suitable desktop platform?. Évalué à 3.
"La première sécurité est la liberté"