Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3397 mails)

[John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

 
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John Andersen