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Re: [SLE] Suse 9.3
- From: Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 10:43:35 -0700
- Message-id: <1113019124.6563.16.camel@xxxxxxxxxx>
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.
I skip short releases. I usually buy only one a year. I bought 8.2 Pro
and then 9.1 OEM. I am debating 9.2 with intact multimedia and 9.3 just
out.
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> 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.
I skip short releases. I usually buy only one a year. I bought 8.2 Pro
and then 9.1 OEM. I am debating 9.2 with intact multimedia and 9.3 just
out.
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