I remember all that! Wow, it's been a while. Yes there was a spate of things about - "Linux might be free but look at our sponsored study which says that actua

I remember all that! Wow, it's been a while. Yes there was a spate of things about - "Linux might be free but look at our sponsored study which says that actually our hardware gives you more uptime and our devtools are better and our patch system does this and our FS is faster and we can cluster this amount of cores and ..." But in the end the systems were still 5x or more what an x86 server would cost, and everyone was just having a go with linux at work and at home anyway, because they already had x86 hardware laying around. (IIRC Microsoft tried a similar TCO gambit a few times as well)