On Thu April 7 2005 7:09 pm, 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.
You don't know that - NO pricing has been published by MickySoft.
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 appreciate the significant differences between a Windows release and a SuSE release, and I do like SuSE, but I do wonder about this continuous upgrade path. If anything I'd be happier with a yearly release on the grounds of actually having the OS installed for a reasonable amount of time.
Then, do as some do and only buy it once a year......simple enough.
BTW I'm not a Yank, just using dollars coz it was simple math ;-)
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