ity and IT staff productivity(Bozman).
             Many experts and business owners believe that the TCO of Linux is cheaper than that of Windows NT because the license cost of Linux is entirely free. The IDC research company has studied the five-year TCO of Windows and Linux with 100 sample users to prove this misconception and completed a study of five common workloads in enterprise computing(Bozman). According to the IDC, "Our in-depth study suggests that Microsoft Windows 2000 offers lower total cost than a Linux solution in four of the five workloads common to most corporate IT environments. In these four workloads (network infrastructure, print serving, file serving, and security applications), the cost advantages of Windows are significant: 11.22% less over a five-year period" (Bozman 1). Ne
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