The South African tax (wo)man (SARS) wants Linux! They want to port all their desktops and management infrastructure to Linux. The gotcha will be the 700 supported apps that need to be replaced or ported.

This leads me to a discussion I had yesterday about Microsoft's "TCO point". You know. the whole "carefull, changing things costs money" argument. I realised that TCO is going to factor into *any* decision to switch from one system to another. However, you don't hear it coming from every vendor. Rather, vendors argue that their product is better than the competition, with the obvious premise that in the long term the better product will produce better returns. However, we don't hear that argument from Microsoft (apart from a few quickly smacked down, Microsoft funded 'independant studies'), their focus is on TCO! TCO!

This makes me happy. It means Microsoft is losing. Their primary tactic is a weak one, and they aren't stupid, if there were better arguments, we would have seen them.