Cost

``Cost of software is a minor portion of the cost of a project.'' This is a case of FUD#3 (``spinning'' a strength) carefully disguising FUD#2 (the implication being, ``the only reason to use Linux is cost'').

Point out that:

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Linux is regarded as a ``best of breed'' Unix within the industry even by key people within Microsoft Corporation (point him to http://www.opensource.org/halloween2.html ).

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Total Cost of Operation is less for Linux as compared with most commercial competitors and especially as compared with Windows NT ( see http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/kirch/ ).

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The greater reliability of Linux is critical in mission-critical services such as a database server or web server. An NT database server that gives the ``blue screen of death'' can bring a whole Navy ship to a standstill (which, in actual combat, truly WOULD be the ``blue screen of death''). See http://www.gcn.com/gcn/1998/July13/cov2.htm. Do you want YOUR corporation to be ``dead in the water''?