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Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, in an exclusive interview with Fox News while touring the border just days after taking the helm at DHS, detailed what he described as an urgent and “exciting” plan to go after the gangs fueling the flow of illegal migrants, weapons and drugs across the southern border. "The TCOs and cartels, they control the southern side of the border — they have to be paid, they have to be compensated for any of these large flows coming across the border,” he told Fox News. “You eliminate that and you eliminate their ability to recruit...

Tesla’s Model 3 is cheaper on a total cost of ownership basis than competing luxury sedans from BMW and Mercedes, but a Toyota Camry? Model 3 is a state-of-the-art electric vehicle with a 5-star safety rating and a driving experience that’s gotten rave reviews from every auto mag under the sun. Is it possible that it’s even in the same price class as the entry-level, reliable-but-dull Camry? the figures for an Audi A5, and the result is … embarrassing? Game-changing? Adjectives fail us. The cost per mile of the German sedan over 5 years comes out to $0.80, a little...

DOJ says Mexican cartels operating in over 1,000 U.S. cities By Nicholas Ballasy - The Daily Caller 12:12 PM 09/29/2011 ADVERTISEMENT Mexican-based transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) were “operating in more than a thousand U.S. cities during 2009 and 2010, spanning all nine Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) regions,” according to the U.S. Justice Department’s National Drug Threat Assessment of 2011. According to the report, the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) assesses with “high confidence” that Mexican-based TCOs “control distribution of most of the heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine available in the United States” and production of these drugs in...

US Manager at Tengizchevroil Found Dead in Kazakhstan by Kadyr Toktogulov Dow Jones Newswires Tuesday, May 22, 2007 ALMATY, Kazakhstan, May 22, 2007 (Dow Jones Newswires) Chevron Corp.-led (CVX) Tengizchevroil, or TCO, said Tuesday its employee Peter Tabarini was found dead in the Ural River near the town of Atyrau in western Kazakhstan after apparently drowning. Tabarini, a native of New York, U.S., has been missing since May 13 and his body was found Tuesday without any signs of violence, a TCO spokesman said. Tabarini had worked for Texaco and then Chevron since 1989 in various auditing and finance roles...

SALT LAKE CITY -- There have been so many announcements, so much activity, such a hurried pace to the Brainshare 2005 conference that I think many may have overlooked the big story. It was thrown out in an almost offhand manner during Novell CEO Jack Messman's keynote address on Monday: Longtime Microsoft partner Novell is migrating all of its own 6,000 Windows desktops to Linux. I asked to speak to an executive who could tell me about the migration, and CIO Debra Anderson was kind enough to make herself available in spite of her own hectic schedule to tell the...

TCO study: Linux wins again By Sam Varghese December 13, 2004 German study claims Linux lowers TCO An updated Linux vs Windows TCO study has found that a 250-seat company can end up saving 36 percent if it were to equip its users with the open source operating system and applications that run on it. The study, by Melbourne-based open source firm Cybersource, found that even use of a commercial Linux distribution such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, would result in 27 percent lower costs. The study was first issued in April 2002. "We have now updated this report to...

Just 6 easy steps, and we come full circle on the indemnification story: 1. First, we had SCO announcing it was suing IBM and threatening Linux users for contributory copyright infringement. 2. Then the chorus broke out in song about how Linux has no indemnification. 3. Then we found out from BayStar's lips that Microsoft inspired them to invest in SCO, an investment that made all the lawsuits financially possible. Thanks for nothing, BayStar. 4. Meanwhile, the Linux world began setting up indemnification and legal funds for Linux users and developers.5. SCO sued everybody else. Terror ensued, sorta, briefly. 6....

THE UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has upheld a series of public complaints over an advert in a magazine comparing the cost of Linux versus Microsoft Windows. An advert it ran compared the two operating systems to each other, but Windows was running on a measly dual 900MHz Xeon configuration, while Linux was running on a z900 IBM mainframe. The advert appeared in an IT magazine and was headed: "Weighing the cost of Linux vs Windows? Let's review the facts". The ad contained a graph comparing the cost in US dollars between a Linux images running on two z900 mainframe...

So, yet another survey has attempted to answer the question of whether running a system on Linux or Windows is cheaper. On the face of it buying Linux software is cheaper because it is open-source and Microsoft has a famously pricey licensing system for its products. However, it is the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) that is the important factor. How much does it cost all in - maintenance, development, training - to run both systems? We've had numerous surveys, reports and studies in the past two years that have pointed first way one and then the other. In fact,...

European chief argues that total cost of ownership is lower Microsoft has dismissed claims that Linux is more cost-effective for businesses, arguing that Windows is cheaper over its total lifecycle. When asked by Gartner about Microsoft's intensifying battle against the open source operating system, European president Jean-Phillipe Courtois claimed that Linux is in fact more expensive to run than Windows. Arguments that Linux is free, and therefore a good alternative for governments and organisations on a tight budget, are incorrect, he said. Courtois claimed that Microsoft has been tracking the total cost of ownership (TCO) in 12 organisations across a...

The cost of running Linux is roughly 40% that of Microsoft Windows, and only 14% that of Sun Microsystem's Solaris, according to a new study which examined the actual costs of running various operating systems over three years. The study, by the Robert Frances Group, in Westport, Conn., looked at production deployments of Web servers running on the three operating systems at 14 Global 2000 enterprises. Linux cost $74,475 over three years, while a Windows deployment cost $190,662 and one on Solaris $561,520. Most of the savings with Linux come from software licensing fees. Companies will typically purchase commercial versions...