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To: JC Jaros who wrote (21060)	10/12/1999 9:39:00 PM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (1) of 64865

Boy, I searched all over the microsoft.com site and couldn't find your reference. A 1996 DRI/McGraw Hill study found that, during the past decade, every dollar spent on Microsoft software raised business productivity by an equivalent amount. Taken at face value, it raises some interesting questions. One interpretation is that every dollar spent on Microsoft resulted in one dollar of product. Meaning that it was a complete waste of time to spend that dollar. By what units is the $1 productivity gain measured: $/hour, $/worker, $/year, what? Another interpretation: since the cost of software on bundled machines is zero, then companies purchasing bundled software realized a gain of $0 (units don't matter, zero is zero). Great! And finally, given the crap that I go through on a daily basis (machine hangs, BSOD's and other miscellaneous stuff to do with backslashes), I'd have to say that my personal productivity gain from Microsoft has been NEGATIVE. And I cost much more than a secretary. So how is the $1 gain distributed compared with the costs incurred? And what about all the systems administrators those companies need? Inquiring minds want to know. P.

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