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On 30/01/07, Peter Church <peter.church at church-consultancy.co.uk> wrote:
> Well if you start the costs rolling at the license for SMB then there
> really isn't that much of a problem... the office software is point and
> click, setting up a postfix server is as easy as a 5 lines from a debian
> cookbook (took me about an hours work from scratch using the 40mg cd
> boot image and apt get)
>
> I really don't see TCO as an issue here as much as mickysoft might want
> to push the notion in fud...

Maybe you're right - maybe Karl's users are savvy enough to use a
generic office suite, rather than MS Office specifically; it's just
that I've tried to get Joe and Joanne Public User onto alternative OSs
and office suites before and not had much luck. YMMV.

Tim