@itguy08
Exactly. Let's see... Windows OS site licences to start with, then you want to add Sharepoint but then that only works properly if everyone has the latest version of Office, which you can only take advantage of all the features if you go with Exchange for your mail server... ad infinitum.
Pretty ironic to see M$ whining about lock-in from other vendors.
Meanwhile the Vmware virtual machine has become the de facto industry standard that other vendors are trying to make their own virtualization wares fully compatible with (plus hardware support for ESX) and which they are falling over themselves to give away for free (see Sun/Oracle's Virtual Box).
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