Is Microsoft Really Less Expensive Than Linux?

Until recently, if you wanted to find someone who thought that a Windows-based program was cheaper than one based on Linux, you had to go all the way
to Redmond. No more. Not since Microsoft paid Giga Research to conduct a comparative study of the costs of developing a Web-based portal. Now you can
go to Santa Clara, where Giga vice president John Rymer can explain in detail the cost saving benefits of Microsoft.