John Andersen wrote:
On Saturday 09 April 2005 05:08 pm, Colin Carter wrote:
On Sunday 10 April 2005 07:36, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 13:43, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 16:09, Stephen Boddy wrote:
On Wednesday 06 April 2005 20:46, John Andersen wrote:
Its SO cheap compared to windows (any flavor).
I'm going to be controversial here and disagree with you. Time between Windows XP and Longhorn is going to be roughly 5 years at least. Price of an upgrade will be somewhere in the range of $125 dollars. In that time SuSE will have released ten releases (6 month release cycle). At a cost of $60 for each upgrade you're looking at $600.
Then our company went to Dell and ordered a stack of new naked PCs - no O.S. installed. But, and here's the catch, Dell are in a contract with M$ that no machine will leave their premises without XP. Outcome: although we had paid for XP we had to pay for it again on each new PC. Beat that for money grubbing! Happy days now that I'm off the bottle.
Hmmm. your purchasing agent got railroaded..
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx/desktops_n?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd
This is the UK, we got rid of most of the railways, but not the railroaders. I've spoken to many hamradio dealers around the US and all except one large and notable one tell me that they can't ship to the UK as the dealers here get very upset, if it sells in the US for $99.00, it'll sell in the uk for £199.00 - that's UK Pounds, nearly 4 times as much at current rates. The one dealer here I challenged muttered something about customs duty and disappeared rapidly to the back of the shop. The one way I got around it was to buy the stuff in California and have it shipped to Florida less California sales tax and shipped F.O.B, then bring it back with me, pay customs duty and save a packet, then the UK dealers will try telling you they won't repair it and that's against the trading laws, so you can insist. One guy went to Florida on a fly-drive holiday, meals included, bought a radio with Florida state tax included, his total spend on that holiday came to a good bit less than if he had bought the same radio a few miles away from home - the exchange rate was then around $1.50 to the Pound. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks