Forty-eight percent of companies have Windows end-to-end. That's a big number and if you're running Windows already, you're probably going to get some cost savings from standardization, ... You can't ignore switching costs such as moving data, training, additional support, management and on and on it all adds up and it makes TCO analysis that much more difficult.
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