-----Original Message----- From: Jack Barnett [mailto:jbarnett@axil.netmate.com] Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 1:34 PM To: Thomas, Gregory (NBC, KNBC); SuSE English Subject: Re: [SLE] Fundamental differences
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Well, for the desktop Win2k only costs ~$150 for an upgrade
Yes, but you can't upgrade from 95/98 to W2k atleast that is what my MS sales consultant told me.
Yes, you can, I just did it here at work. First you must own WinNT4.0 easily from
$200-$1000 for the full version.
NT 4.0 Wkstn was less than $300 for the full version, much less for the Academic version. Win2k Professional is $159 for the upgrade at Staples (plus something like a $70 rebate if you owned a non-academic version of NT 4.0 which brings the price down to $89). To upgrade to aw2k with a 5
client license it is $359.00 or $89.95 "competive" upgrade version (which requires a full version of WinNT 4.0).
Microsoft AW2k is currently going for $3,999.00 for 25 clients.
I thought we were talking about NT/Win2k on the desktop?
and Win95, etc.
Win95/98 can be had for ~$80 a peice.
Ok, so I was off a litte. But my point was being a Linux workstation and/or server is a lot more cheaper than any MS product and offers just as good, if not better stability.
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