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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (20015)	3/30/2004 1:17:50 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 57684

I'm not a big fan of Marc Andreesen but this is a pretty good interview with him about Linux. Q: Is Linux saving anyone real money? I ask because you clearly can save on hardware, but licenses from open-source companies such as Red Hat (RHAT ) aren't cheap. And now that you can run Sun on Intel hardware is there any real savings? A: Most of the studies that show Linux is not cheaper have been funded by the old vendors. You'll typically find an analyst study that was paid for by Sun or Microsoft (MSFT ). That's compromised research. What the customers will tell us, and I am not in the business of selling hardware or operating systems, is that they're saving a lot of money. Morgan Stanley has an 80-20 rule. That rule goes like this: They're replacing 80% of their Sun system with Intel boxes for 20% of the cost. Now that means they need to manage lots of boxes, and they may need more people for that, but they still feel they're saving a lot of money. yahoo.businessweek.com