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Long-term costs

Emphasize here that if you've bet your business on Microsoft, Microsoft can come back and hike your license fees as high as they feel like because it'd be more expensive to switch to another platform than to pay the fees. This is an example of FUD#1 (exaggeration of a weakness), but one to which Microsoft is especially vulnerable due to their past history of doing this.




1998-12-02