Please remind me what RM stands Thanks Josef Davies-Coates Chris Puttick wrote:
One of the schools we support now pay £230 for a brand new, fully functional desktop PC with 17" flat CRT monitor. Thin (ish) client of course, but the new ones are only needed for multimedia work - secondhand units cost more like £100. Their new servers cost them about £1400 each, have 3 year on-site warranties included.
Never having asked before what the RM solution was costing them, I now fully understand how eager the school was to go down this route...
-----Original Message----- From: adrian.wells To: 'SuSE Linux UK Schools ' Sent: 5/12/03 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Suse and Winbind
As a matter of interest, how much does it cost the school to keep up
with
RM?
It costs us, in addition to maint. contracts on the servers (which we would have anyway) and ISP (which we would pay anyway), a little under £200 per machine (one off) for the office licence & the RM licence.
Their is a plus side, I insist that we by PC from RM for "compatibility reasons" otherwise I am (was) forced to purchase the cheapest kit going which meant that sometimes I might have as many as 5 machines with the same spec. This is murder from a maint. point of view although I ran batches on the Novell box to load the correct drivers, still not nice!
Adrian Wells