[Bedon292]

I don't have any real numbers to back it up, but I have been told that Red Hat costs the government more money per machine for the licenses. At least within the DoD. Now this could well be attributed to buying less licenses, and not getting as much bulk discount. But Red Hat not necessarily a cheaper option. And even if you got the license costs down you would still have to pay absurd amounts in retraining the entire workforce.