Yankee changes tack on Linux

For ages, the Spinsters of Microsoft have been waiving about a Yankee report, which says that Windows is cheaper than Linux. The report, penned by Laura DiDio, has been damned by Linux advocates who dubbed Yankee Microsoft's lackeys and basing its evidence on dubious evidence.

Well, according to a new report, written by none other than DiDio herself, Yankee appears to have changed its mind and now there is very little difference between the cost of maintaining a Windows versus a Linux-based corporate computing environment.

DiDio now says that the main cost difference is determined by the amount of time it takes to develop applications or ensure the security of servers, the networked computers that store data, crunch numbers and serve up Web pages. She said that these costs are not really dependent on the underlying functionality in the core operating system, DiDio said.

Can this be the same DiDio who last year told us that the total cost of Linux was three to four times higher than that of Windows. We wonder what has changed in the past few months to change her mind?

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