Depends on where you live. Certainly not peanuts here. Edit: I know that if you spent your whole life in California it can be hard to believe that in some pla

Depends on where you live. Certainly not peanuts here. Edit: I know that if you spent your whole life in California it can be hard to believe that in some places junior developers make $250 a month (senior more than that, but typically less than $1k a month), so a single Windows Server license buys you four months of work of a single junior dev (however unproductive it may be), or 1-1.5 months of a senior dev's work. In my current place of work a few years back I started a strong push towards Linux and as much FOSS as possible, and over some time (as new projects were written and some legacy stuff re-written) it resulted in a massive reduction of total operation costs. I didn't expect any other reaction, though. You understand our realities better than us.