Costs: Wintel Vs. OpenSource
One of the true wonders of our age is the ability lots of otherwise reasonable people have to tell you with every evidence of believing it themselves that PCs cost a few hundred bucks and last for years - and then go off to spend well over a thousand replacing last year’s product.
That’s not, mind you, the only reality defying miracle in sight: the realities of both mass production and retail distribution mean that fully assembled products always retail for less than the sum of their parts - except among Wintel enthusiasts. Thus a $90 lawn mower contains over $600 in retail parts, but lots of Wintel people really believe they can assemble a $400 PC from retail parts - including a Windows license and a processor wholesaling for $939 in lots of 10,000 - for a lot less than $400.
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Murphy’s law, or why WinTel wins
My former co-blogger here, Paul Murphy, has a very nice piece out today comparing the costs of running Windows and Linux in corporate computing. (Here’s a book on that you can buy.)
The bottom line is you’re paying roughly a 50% tax (you spend 64% of what you would otherwise) running WinTel.
So why do companies still buy Windows? For the same reason their fathers and grandfathers bought IBM. Because everyone else does.
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