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Re: Supportabilty said by raye:Is where others have failed and (hopefully) Google will succeed. Many corporations would like to move away from Microsoft but cannot because of support contracts. Microsoft supports its software, albeit with a very heavy price tag. This is true.
The military is replacing most of their Unix and Linux based systems with Windows based ones, albeit a very specially developed version of Windows XP that is supposed to be super-secure.
One of the main reason of doing this: Microsoft is the ONLY company that has the resources to have support engineers (albeit indeed for a big pricetag) on the ground in Iraq, Afhganistan or in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on an aircraft carrier within 24 hours of the call.
Of course the military would have provided the transport anyways, but even the biggest commercial Linux distro that HAS support contracts - Red Hat - does not have highly qualified engineers that can be on-site, GUARANTEED, even if half the world is going to shizzle because of a huge war. Microsoft has, and can pull qualified engineers from virtually any country.
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